In These Times ran an excerpt of From the Ashes:
After the win comes the letdown or the reconciliation or both. It is the feeling, as Nyliayh Stewart said, that you are proud of the win but still angry at what it took, the months and years of painful work and the deaths and putting your grief on display to the world. There’s frustration that the laws passed are imperfect. There’s the real tension and splits within a community held together by momentum that come up when the momentum fades. Communities are formed in the struggle, Nelson noted, but those communities change and sometimes fall apart.