Desperate Households

Capturing the riotous and exhausting life of working mom Val Stone and her extended blended family . . . Jan Eliot has created a classic family story for our times.” –“New York Newsday”* Jan Eliot manages to find the humor in working parent hassles, the terrible twos, middle-school angst, love, and the life of the single mom in this all-color collection. The all-too-real humor of “Stone Soup” is very wise and very funny.Distributed to more than 150 newspapers in six countries with over eight million loyal fans, “Stone Soup” is a funny, irreverent, sympathetic comic strip that mirrors today’s complicated family life . . . while cheering us on.* Jan Eliot’s “Stone Soup” follows the riotous and exhausting life of working mom Val, her daughters Holly and Alix, and her often too-close-for-comfort extended blended family . . . conveniently living right next door.