After protest comes process.
After process: resistance in pen.

In Ashes and Amendments, the Whitmans engage in the quietest revolution yet: the act of rewording a nation. As remnants of the destroyed civic code are transcribed and reinterpreted, Clara's descendants convene—not in courtrooms, but in candlelit halls, reimagining what governance might look like if built on story, soil, and shared memory.

One descendant, Jonah Whitman, begins cataloguing "errors of silence"—phrases left deliberately vague by historical documents. His edits aren't sanctioned. But they echo.

This is a novel of repairs.
Of seeing where the seam ripped, and choosing not to stitch it back—
—but to let light through the tear.