简·艾略特(Jan Eliot)的《石头汤》(Stone Soup)有趣而又无礼，讲述了一个大家庭的传奇故事，主角是两个互为职业母亲的姐妹，彼此只隔着一道篱笆。瓦尔和琼与他们固执的母亲，一个中学天后和10岁的假男孩，一个隐居的十几岁的男孩，一个狂野的学龄前儿童和他刚出生的小妹妹分享生活……当然还有沃利，一个终极好人，在混乱中优雅地走上了他继父的道路。工作父母的争吵、学龄前的脾气、中学的焦虑、爱和单身妈妈……都在石头汤里。
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.
