Just Published; In Transit, a Wonderful Story Of Survival, Challenges And Fulfillment From Best-Selling Novelist, Mary Agria

In Transit, a new novel by best-selling author Mary Agria gives a compelling look into the full-time RV-culture and the courage of a woman facing widowhood "on the road". Early reviewers have praised it as a "wonderful story of survival, challenges and fulfillment" with "terrific characters", a story that engages readers from start to the final page. The novel is available at http://www.maryagria.com and online and local booksellers.

Southold, NY (PRWEB) April 10, 2008 -- Set for publication April 2008, In Transit, a new novel by best-selling author Mary Agria gives a compelling look into the full-time RV-culture and the courage of a woman facing widowhood "on the road". Early reviewers have praised it as a "wonderful story of survival, challenges and fulfillment" with "terrific characters", a story that engages readers from start to the final page.    

In the novel, the three years Lib Aventura spent full-time Rving in her retirement years with her husband were among the happiest she ever experienced.His sudden death leaves her devastated and "homeless". Although tempted to allow her children to mother her and to cope by living vicariously through the lives of their families, she finds the courage to return to the campground where her husband died to reclaim her motor home. The life-changing decision awakens her to the awareness that even in the darkest moments of life, people are never alone. As a Chinese proverb says, even the hardest journey becomes possible, if we never stop stepping.

Author Agria's earlier novels, Time in a Garden and Vox Humana: the Human Voice, have won reader acclaim for their "wonderful, engaging characters", "fresh language and images" and their ability to sensitively portray issues facing older readers and their families including the "ultimate questions of mortality and spirituality". Time in a Garden was on the top 3 best-seller lists all over northern Michigan in summer 2006.    Book clubs from Maine to California as well as judges in the 2007 Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards competition have given Ms. Agria's novels across-the-board five-star rankings.

A Michigan book club leader writes that Time in a Garden has "become one of my top ten best reads. The main players are older and wiser, with a better understanding of life and its good and bad times. The characters are beautiful. I loved the book and it garnered positive reviews from our book club." It is the "powerful" story of a team of senior citizens trying to beautify their dying rural town by creating a community garden along an interstate off-ramp. In the process they are challenged to redefine the ways they cope with love and loss in the twilight of their lives.

A story of "finding one's voice" in retirement, Vox Humana is "a five-star novel in every way," writes a judge in the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards competition in 2007. "The characterization was excellent----fascinating details made everything seem real. . .music, organist's secrets, liturgy, the details about weaving. I learned so much by reading this book. Special. . .excellent work."     A reviewer in the American Guild of Organist magazine writes: "a tale spun with genuine heart. [. . . Agria knows well how to meld truth and passion. A reflective portrayal of the ascent of goodness, reconciliation and love."

Though all of Agria's novels have a broad appeal, they are especially targeted at mature readers. "Most novels feature thirty-somethings", says Agria. "My characters are older, facing life transitions such as adjusting to retirement, relating to adult children, rekindling love and dealing with loss."

Following her successful coast-to-coast book tour in 2007, Ms. Agria is in demand with book groups, retailer events, at churches and retirement communities, garden clubs and Master Garden programs from New York to Florida and throughout the upper Midwest. For sample chapters from her novels or to contact the author go on-line to http://www.maryagria.com. Her books are available on her website, at local booksellers and major online retailers.

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