The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina is a dystopian young adult book set 300 years after the world ended in an environmental cataclysm. In this world, people with “abilities” (some sort of magical skill that they are born with) are considered a threat to “the balance” (an idea that is said to preserve harmony between people and the environment). Because of that, they don’t give citizenship to people with abilities. Instead, they can get exemptions (if their ability is useful to the government). […]