Michael Carley

Know My Name Michael Carley

Andrew Grey is a young accountant, already introverted and isolated, who finds his life rerouted when a freak accident confines him to his apartment. Cut off from the few personal relationships he does maintain, he spirals dangerously inward in a direction that compromises his physical and mental health. As Andrew moves inward, we see how those around him are affected by both his presence and absence from their lives. His distant family, his coworkers, and even a few strangers find themselves impacted by a life most would have viewed as ineffectual. Know My Name is a novel of human connection and what happens when that connection disappears or doesn't exist. It is about life's maddening randomness and our attempts to make meaning of it. It is ultimately about the ripple effects of each of our lives, intended or not.