A Time to Love Anew: The William Barsh Roberts Triloghy

A Time to Love Anew contains the novels of the William Barsh Roberts trilogy. The first novel South Wind Rising is set in Alabama in 1949 and focuses on the challenges that Barsh, a nature-loving boy, faced during the year he turned fifteen. Those challenges include first love and betrayal, a male culture that objectified girls and women, and the death of a dear friend. These are the first of his boyhood experiences that will start him on a long intellectual and spiritual journey. Honey from a Lion and The Winter is Past are bookend novels that pick up Barsh’s story in midlife. Married, with an eleven-year-old daughter, he is an honorable professor at Cooper College in Upstate South Carolina. Although his relationship with his wife Debbie is lackluster, he is totally committed to his family and find great joy in parenting their precocious daughter Hannah who is very attached to him. But those days are doomed, when Debbie askes for a trial separation with plans to move to Louisville, Kentucky, with Hannah. While he struggles to prepare Hannah for the separation, that he believes will become permanent, he finds himself drawn into the life of Angela Kundera, the new English Professor who joined the Cooper faculty, looking for a Southern experience.