簡·艾略特(Jan Eliot)的《石頭湯》(Stone Soup)有趣而又無禮，講述了一個大家庭的傳奇故事，主角是兩個互為職業(yè)母親的姐妹，彼此只隔著一道籬笆。瓦爾和瓊與他們固執(zhí)的母親，一個中學天后和10歲的假男孩，一個隱居的十幾歲的男孩，一個狂野的學齡前兒童和他剛出生的小妹妹分享生活……當然還有沃利，一個終極好人，在混亂中優(yōu)雅地走上了他繼父的道路。工作父母的爭吵、學齡前的脾氣、中學的焦慮、愛和單身媽媽……都在石頭湯里。
Jan Eliot's funny and irreverent Stone Soup follows the saga of an extended, blended family, starring two working-mom sisters living just across the fence from each other. Val and Joan share life with their opinionated mother, a middle-school diva and 10-year-old tomboy, a reclusive teenage boy, a wild preschooler and his new baby sister...and of course Wally, the ultimate nice guy who steps into his stepdad shoes with grace amid the chaos. Working-parent hassles, pre-school tantrums, middle-school angst, love and the single mom... it's all here in Stone Soup.
