CONFIDENCE

Em Grosland takes listeners inside the mind of Ezra Green, a con man who is hopelessly in love with Orson Ortman, his con artist partner. Grosland excels at voicing the two men from their first meeting at a camp for juvenile delinquents to Ortman's wedding more than a decade later. The two con men develop a pyramid scheme that reeks of new-age hucksterism. At times, the plot goes off the rails. But Grosland keeps listeners invested and even engenders sympathy for Green, a manipulative liar, fraud, and all-around sociopath whose diseased eyes torment him until his world turns black. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2023]