Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill
If eighteen-year-old Eunice "Bug" Smoot is rough around the edges, she has every right to be. Her life has been anything but smooth and it's about to get way more complicated. When we first meet Bug, her landlord is pounding on the door of her "roach motel" apartment demanding the rent. Bug is behind. She has been on her own for about a year, ever since the death of her grandfather, Papa C. Her dad was never in the picture, at age six, she witnessed the death of her mother, she left school and a promising college basketball career to care for Papa C after his stroke. The only thing she has in this world is the mint condition 1958 Cadillac Biarritz he left her.
The landlord informs her that unless the rent is paid by later in the day, she will be served with an eviction notice. Bug is wondering just how bad things can get for her when he returns to her door to inform her that she'd better clean up her "junker" before he calls the authorities. Somebody egged her beloved car. She can't let the egg stay on the paint job all day and she can't get to the car wash and be on time for her crummy job delivering pizzas around El Paso. She needs the job to pay the rent, she needs the car to keep the job. As if things couldn't get worse, when Bug brings the car to the car wash, she discovers that she has a very unwelcome passenger, who is about to repossess her car and collect her soul. It seems that her Papa C sold his soul to the devil to obtain the car and also used Bug's soul as collateral. Bug has forty-eight hours to figure out if there's a loophole in this contract.
Strap on your seat belt for this wild, convoluted, wickedly funny showdown featuring a cast of memorable characters from the devilish Mr. Beals to the divine hunk, Pesto.
The landlord informs her that unless the rent is paid by later in the day, she will be served with an eviction notice. Bug is wondering just how bad things can get for her when he returns to her door to inform her that she'd better clean up her "junker" before he calls the authorities. Somebody egged her beloved car. She can't let the egg stay on the paint job all day and she can't get to the car wash and be on time for her crummy job delivering pizzas around El Paso. She needs the job to pay the rent, she needs the car to keep the job. As if things couldn't get worse, when Bug brings the car to the car wash, she discovers that she has a very unwelcome passenger, who is about to repossess her car and collect her soul. It seems that her Papa C sold his soul to the devil to obtain the car and also used Bug's soul as collateral. Bug has forty-eight hours to figure out if there's a loophole in this contract.
Strap on your seat belt for this wild, convoluted, wickedly funny showdown featuring a cast of memorable characters from the devilish Mr. Beals to the divine hunk, Pesto.