"The indomitable Momma is only one of the characters in Carol DeChant's stirring collection of memories. Gangsters and grandparents, nuns and bullies are all characters in these often quirky, sometimes bittersweet - but always unabashedly honest - tales."--BOOK JACKET. "Focusing on food, family, and humor, each of the thirty-one stories corresponds to an Advent reading, just as our own stories connect us to Scripture and to each other."--BOOK JACKET.
Carol DeChant's articles have appeared in the Miami Herald and in Chicago's Tribune, Sun-Times, and Reader. Her screenplay, Pure Beholding, had a brief happy life as first place winner in a Texas screenwriting competition before dying peacefully, never produced.
Her new book is "Great American Catholic Eulogies" (with a foreword by author Thomas Lynch); a CD version will follow. Both offer a spectrum of American Catholic history through the lives of men and women of every era since the Revolution. Those memorialized made significant contributions in social, public, church or military service, or through art, music, literature, media, and sports. The book reintroduces these men and women to readers who may have forgotten--or never known--the extent of how Catholics have left their mark on American.
Visit her website at www.greatamericancatholiceulogies.com
As founder of DeChant-Hughes & Associates, Inc., a national PR firm specializing in books and authors, (now run by Kelly Hughes) Carol has always been involved in publishing.
"Momma's Enchanted Supper" is Carol's memoir of four generations of Iowans, each chapter springing from the Advent Scripture of the day. She also contributed an essay to each of the collections pictured: "Christmas Presence" and "Diamond Presence."
Carol and her husband Stan Reinisch live in Ocean Ridge, FL; they spend hurricane season in Evanston, IL. Their ten grandchildren come and go.
