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There Is No Ethan Audiobook by Anna Akbari— narrated by Anna Akbari and Justin Price
How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
In There Is No Ethan, sociologist Anna Akbari recounts how she and two other accomplished women spent months falling for the same brilliant, endlessly unavailable man online, then teamed up to unmask him. Part memoir, part investigation, it is a study of emotional catfishing where the con wanted devotion, not money, and the law had nothing to say about it.
Why the audiobook wins
Sociologist Anna Akbari narrates her own catfishing ordeal, and that choice changes the audiobook's texture. This is a woman with a trained eye for social behavior describing, in her own voice, the months she spent falling for a man who never once turned on a webcam. You hear the academic distance and the raw embarrassment trade places in real time. Justin Price fills in the other registers, giving the investigative turns their own momentum.
The hook isn't the reveal, it's the process: three strangers comparing notes and realizing they were courting the same fictional man, at the same hours, in the same phrases. Akbari's narration makes that dawning recognition land as it happened to her, doubt by doubt.
At roughly ten hours, it's a commute-sized dive into a fraud with no money changing hands, only devotion, and Akbari's firsthand telling gives it a credibility no dramatized reading could fake. One Audible credit gets you the whole unraveling, told by the person who lived it.
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- Who narrates the There Is No Ethan audiobook?
- Anna Akbari and Justin Price narrate the audiobook edition of There Is No Ethan.
- How long is the There Is No Ethan audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 9 hr 57 min.
- Is the There Is No Ethan audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored There Is No Ethan 4.1 out of 5. Sociologist Anna Akbari narrates her own catfishing ordeal, and that choice changes the audiobook's texture. This is a woman with a trained eye for social behavior describing, in her own voice, the months she spent falling for a man who never once turned on a webcam. You hear…
- Can I listen to There Is No Ethan free with an Audible trial?
- Eligible new Audible members can use a free-trial credit to listen in the Audible app. Eligibility and current offer terms are set by Audible.
