There Is No Ethan

How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

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Grand Central Publishing
13 June 2024

Biography: general; True crime; Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfish, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them.

In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged countless messages with Ethan, staying up late into the evenings to deepen their connections with this seemingly perfect man. His detailed excuses about broken webcams and complicated international calling plans seemed believable, as did last minute trip cancellations. After all, why would he lie?

Ethan wasn't after money - he never convinced his marks to shell out thousands of dollars for some imagined crisis. Rather, he ensnared these women in a web of intense emotional intimacy. After the trio independently began to question inconsistencies in their new flame's stories, they managed to find one another and uncover a greater deception than they could've ever imagined. As Anna Akbari and the women untangled their catish's web, they found dozens of other victims and realized that without a proper crime, there was no legal reason for ""Ethan"" to ever stop.

THERE IS NO ETHAN catalogues Akbari's experience as both victim and observer. By looking at the bigger picture of where these stories unfold - a world where technology mediates our relationships; where words and images are easily manipulated; and where truth, reality, and identity have become slippery terms - Akbari gives a page-turning and riveting examination of why stories like Ethan's matter for us all.

By: Anna Akbari
Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 495g
ISBN: 9781538742198
ISBN 10: 1538742195
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 13 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Akbari, PhD is a sociologist, writer, speaker, entrepreneur, and thought leadership advisor. She is a former professor at New York University and Parsons School of Design. Anna is the author of Startup Your Life: Hustle and Hack Your Way to Happiness (St. Martin's Press, 2016), the co-author of The Enneagram at Work (St. Martin's Essentials, 2021), and has collaborated with over a dozen authors across multiple fields and industries. She has written for or been featured by The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, The Atlantic, TIME, The Economist, Financial Times, TED, Bulletproof Executive, Psychology Today, Vogue, Google Talks, SiriusXM, and many more, and makes regular media appearances. She sits on the jury for the Gotham Book Prize.

Reviews for There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

"""Perfect. Essential. Stunning. The missing manual for understanding what modern social engineering has done to us. A fearless, inspiring, relentless reclamation of power that will have you cheering wildly, begging others to read it and feeling strength you forgot you had.""--Mandy Stadtmiller, author of Unwifeable"