The law still stands, technically. But only in the buildings that haven't collapsed. And even there-it forgets how to listen.In The Ash-Bound Republic, the Whitman family steps into the literal and symbolic ruins of what once governed them. After civic fires-metaphorical, legal, actual-what remains is dust, dissent, and the chance to choose differently. Clara Whitman leads a small coalition not to restore, but to re-story: rewriting the civic liturgy in oral declaration and street assembly.Meanwhile, an archive technician named Reuben discovers one last unburned clause tucked in a hollowed anthem case. It doesn't save the nation. But it might remind it how to exhale.This isn't a book about saving the republic. It's about mourning what it became-and choosing how to move amid its bones.
- | Author: Gregory Parrott
- | Publisher: MR Parrott
- | Publication Date: Aug 29, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 158 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-13: 9798230700111