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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.