My Name Is Sam | A Novel by Samantha Carbon
When Sam, a bright and high-spirited professional working for an investment bank, walks into work on Monday morning, she thinks it’s just going to be an ordinary start to an ordinary week.
But one quick and tense exchange is all it takes to change that.
When her more than slightly passive-aggressive, hot-this-week-and-cold-next-week colleague randomly hurls a racial slur at her in the middle of the workday, Sam’s previously comfortable life immediately turns into one filled with stress and anxiety.
In the aftermath, Sam’s choice becomes clearer and clearer.
She can continue to ignore the nagging voice inside her, the one telling her that she’d better not just “let this go” and lose all respect for herself. Or she can speak up to the powers that be and demand what is right…possibly losing her livelihood and the only career she’s known for two decades in the process.
Praise for My Name Is Sam
The author takes you on a journey in this book. It’s an important subject we should all be talking more about. I highly recommend!
Really well written and it so accurately describes how quickly racially discriminatory behaviour can have such a huge impact on the emotional wellbeing/confidence of those in the firing line of it!
This is brilliant book to read the writer keep my blood pumping with the story.
This book is a must-read for anyone who has experienced workplace discrimination, or wants an insight into the experience of its impact.
Reading this left me shocked and disgusted, but also thoroughly inspired by the amazing strength and resilience it took to see the most wonderful light at the end of the tunnel.