Chester's decision to build a small chapel on her New England land eventually led her to write this intriguing and beguiling book. Inspired by her decision, she sought out similar private chapels across America. With photographer Donna DeMari, she has captured something of their essence. Here is the little storefront worship space called All Is Welcome Temple in Mississippi, just up the river from the tiny vodun temple of Priestess Miriam in New Orleans. Here, too, are a miniature Scandinavian stavkirke, or "stave church," in Wisconsin; a Guadalupe chapel in New Mexico; a Mother Goddess altar in San Francisco. Each was built to honor the presence of the divine in the midst of life, and each offers its quirky delights, whether because of its mundane constituent materials (e.g., the Chapel Made of Tires), its mode of creation (a Moonlodge was dug by the hands, literally, of women), or its location (e.g., the Garage Chapel). Look out for a surge in chapel building, if this book really takes off.