The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

Reviewed by: Nina Sachs - MLIS, Portland, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: December 8, 2014

Review

Yes, another dystopian YA novel: but Kwaymullina, an indigenous Australian, has imbued her novel with a sensibility wholly different from the usual. The "interrogation"? of the title involves a fiendish experimental device that can reveal the victim's memories. Ashala has been captured. If she is subjected to interrogation, she may reveal the existence of her tribe of children with special gifts that the bad guys want destroyed less they upset the delicate balance achieved after an ecological cataclysm. Ashala herself can "sleep walk,"? while others can see possible futures and affect memory. These abilities and the character of Ashala herself give the novel a vibrancy that is missing from so many teen novels written lately. CREAM

Overall Book Score: excellent