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What We Give Before the End: Three Works on Love, Voice, and Survival

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What We Give Before the End brings together two interlinked novellas and a dramatic screenplay that examine how people survive love, illness, trauma, and moral compromise. From an aging man’s radical final act of devotion, to a lifelong struggle to reclaim voice through art, to a politically charged crime story that exposes the cost of truth, each work confronts the limits of care, silence, and power. Together, they form an unflinching meditation on what it means to endure, to speak, and to give everything when no clean choices remain.

What We Give Before the End brings together two interlinked novellas and a dramatic screenplay that examine how people survive love, illness, trauma, and moral compromise. From an aging man’s radical final act of devotion, to a lifelong struggle to reclaim voice through art, to a politically charged crime story that exposes the cost of truth, each work confronts the limits of care, silence, and power. Together, they form an unflinching meditation on what it means to endure, to speak, and to give everything when no clean choices remain.

About SUSAN PEPPER ROBBINS

Susan Pepper Robbins is a writing instructor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. Her most recent book is There is Nothing Strange (2016). Susan's previous works have been awarded the Deep South Prize and the Virginia Prize, and include One Way Home and the story collection Nothing but the Weather

 

About ROY ROBBINS

Roy Robbins is an award-winning playwright with four plays and, more recently, a book of poems to his credit. North is his debut novel. Robbins studied poetry with James Dickey at the University of South Carolina, theater in New York, and literature at the University of Virginia. His most recent work, a book of poetry entitled Poster Art Nights, was published in 2015. Robbins lives in rural Virginia with his wife, the author Susan Pepper Robbins, who writes novels about the South and teaches writing at Hampden-Sydney College.

 

  • Genre: Fiction 

    ISBN: 978-1-969421-13-6

    Publication: OCTOBER 20, 2026