The opposite of Indifference

About the opposite of indifference

The Opposite of Indifference, a young adult contemporary thriller at 75,000 words, centers around 17- year-old atheist Hesed Finkelstein who, on the day of her sister’s wedding, hears a voice that calls itself God. Her first impulse is that she's gone insane, but her analytic mind won’t let her outright dismiss any possibility, even the supernatural. Besides, what the voice asks of her sounds easy – over the course of the day, she’ll be asked to complete seven tasks by people she knows. So Hesed agrees; at the very least, it will allow her to stay on her mother's good side (how else is she going to sneak a drink during cocktail hour?).

At first, the tasks seem inconsequential, but as Hesed notes odd coincidences, like men who have the same strange tattoo appearing everywhere she goes, she slowly pieces together the true reason the voice contacted her. Whether the voice was God or not doesn't matter; Hesed is faced with a very real choice: save many or save herself.

Through the use of multiple points of view, The Opposite of Indifference also works to show the interconnectedness of our lives and how our actions, whether purposeful or inadvertent, can change things, large or small, forever.