Road Kill in the Closet by Jan Eliot, 190 pages

Stone Soup the comic strip is read by over 8 million readers every day. The Stones are an extended, blended family in a household of controlled chaos where only the agile survive. Join Val and Joan-sisters and single moms-and their three kids, their live-in mother, their neighbor Wally and his teen-age nephew, the Zen motorcycle cop, and others-as they attempt to navigate life.