What Difference Does It Make

Surviving the horrible hurricane in 1926 struggling through the despair of the Great Depression and working incessantly to end World War II the family kept their faith during these tough times With so many unpredictable changes in Jane s life we follow her through the heartfelt emotions sometimes comical when she was at a crossroad Led by faith she used the wisdom of choice or the grace of exclusion What Difference Does It Make captures your heart in revealing the inspiration dedication and hard work of this southern family brings you laughter and tears in the overwhelming events Suddenly like the sun coming out from behind a cloud Jane discovers what really does make a difference in life

Literature & Fiction

Robinson, Sara M.

Contemporary

1st Book Library

Weaving gossamer threads of history and humanity, author Sara M. Robinson pens What Difference Does It Make, a novel that portrays hope and perseverance while capturing the zeitgeist of the Great Depression and World War II. The Story begins in 1925, David and Lora Brookins begin their lives as a married couple and live in Miami. As time passed, they move to Texas, then Alabama and, finally, Georgia. All the while they struggle to survive the Great Depression with their four surviving children, Amy, Jane, Susan and Ben. As the ominous cloud of the Second World War looms closer, Jane finds love in a young sailor named John. She helps the war effort as a laborer while waiting for John to return from military duty. Amidst the wake of the cataclysm brought by the war, the two endeavor to start their married life and raise their own family in Georgia. Out of the struggles of the family and the events that shook their lives and the world, Robinson crafts a story that poignantly portrays what life was during the 1920's until the 1960's. Stirring and eye-opening, What Difference Does It Make is peopled by richly-drawn characters whose emotions, principles and dreams will let them find an indelible spot in the reader's heart.

In her poem “"Boardwalk,"” Sara Robinson describes, with her usual visual acuity and meditative suppleness, citizens of her beloved Elkton, Virginia, who are “"keepers / of voices who sing of things they are / and things they are not."” What is true of her generously imagined townspeople is true of Robinson herself. In this debut volume, she sings of what she is--—keen historian of particular people in a particular place, a little girl growing up into visionary adulthood, sympathetic friend and family member, attentive observer of local flora and fauna, both animal and human--—and of what she is not, what is not part of her immediate sensory experience but what nevertheless presents itself abundantly to her capable understanding: eruptions of violence, past and present; other landscapes, domestic and foreign; other selfscapes in people she treats with compassionate dignity. Perceptual traveler, efficient narrator, fearless experimenter, Sara Robinson gives us precious treasure here. - STEPHEN CUSHMAN, Robert C. Taylor Professor American Literature, Poetry (Univ. of VA); Author of Poetry Collections: Riffraf (2011), Heart Island (2006), Cussing Lessons (2002), and Blue Pajamas (1998).

Two Little Girls in a Wading Pool (a Collection of Poetry)

Poetry

Cedar Creek Pub

Needville

Sara Robinson's father, Hobby Robinson, was one of the most important photographers of the 20th century to be so little well-known, at least outside the Shenandoah Valley of central Virginia. He chronicled over three generations of Elkton townsfolk, compiling and self-publishing nine books. Using his vast collection of photographs, his own and those he obtained, he gave us a people and a place. SOMETIMES THE LITTLE TOWN is Sara's gift of ekphrastic poetry inspired by the portraits in her father's collection. And like her father's work as a photographer, Sara's poetry is a tribute to little towns everywhere. REVIEW: A loving waltz of poetry and photographs of mid-twentieth century life in Elkton, Virginia. -- MARTHA WOODROOF, WMRA Public Radio, Producer of The Spark, Author of Small Blessings.

Sometimes the Little Town

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

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What Difference Does It Make

What Difference Does It Make

Two Little Girls in a Wading Pool (a Collection of Poetry)

Needville

Sometimes the Little Town