A Changed Man by Francine Prose (2005, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

Vincent Nolan, skinheaded neo-nazi defector, applies for a job at World Brotherhood Watch, a humanitarian organization run by internationally revered Holocaust survivor, Meyer Maslow. “I want to save guys like me from becoming guys like me,” he announces. Maslow’s organization was founded on the premise that people can change “one man at a time, one heart at a time.” He gets the job.

And so begins a lighthearted yet not lightweight satire about good and evil, love and hate and the blurry line between them. Francine Prose is an artful chronicler of those contradictory impulses that get in the way of our best and worst intentions, while Eric Conger’s soothing, upbeat voice strikes just the right note.