Just Needs Killin by Schwartz Jinx

Author:Schwartz, Jinx [Schwartz, Jinx]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9781500295370
Google: mLTdoAEACAAJ
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Abuela Yee is the materfamilias for Chino's kinfolk, and her home the familial epicenter. Her house, located at the edge of Lopez Mateos, is better than average for the area. The cinderblock abode, set on a couple of acres, is painted a tasteful, for Mexico, shade of purple, and is festooned with every color of bougainvillea imaginable. It also boasts a large vegetable and flower garden, which is carefully tended by a cheap labor pool; grand kids.

Most of the family adults have a job of some kind, either in the agricultural business in Constitución, operating small tiendas with various services, running whale watching tours in the winter months, and fishing tours or simply fishing for food during the summer. Like so many families in Mexico, they live life on a rocky fiscal plain that would give most Americans ulcers, but they never seem to lose their good cheer, and besides, somehow children are fed and cars get repaired, so why worry?

Because both parents work, Abuela Yee's house is something of a family enterprise. Outside her chain link fence is her taco stand with picnic tables, open from six a.m. until one p.m., and conveniently across the street from a Tecate beer deposito run by a nephew, where one can get a cold beer to go with those fabulous tacos made with fresh fish dropped off by some relative every morning.

The house overflows with kids, all of them busily engaged in child labor, like chopping onions, cilantro, tomatoes, and chile peppers for the taco stand, and tending the garden, or doing homework, playing soccer, sewing clothes, and through it all, laughing. It is the laughter that so characterizes the place. These kids are loved, well cared for, proud of their contributions to the family, and have never heard the word, "allowance."

Computer time is limited, as there is only one computer and so many people. And, after all, Granny Yee is still on the search for that perfect man.

Part of the yard is compartmentalized by a run of chainlink fence that keeps her precious house pet, an ill-tempered, overweight goat named Preciosa, out of the veggie garden. Preciosa has the run of the house, and she and Po Thang have had a dustup or two, so I leave him in the car when I visit.

Within the compound are several vehicles in various states of repair, but Grammy Yee's old van is always clean—that child labor thing—and runs like a top, thanks to all the mechanics in the family.

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