Less than an hour after Millington receives his permanent resident visa, he wonders if his husband Jay would now end their marriage. And Jay has multiple reasons to. Millington is an ex-Methodist minister, who once believed he could be celibate. When he fled Caribbean Methodism and came to Montreal, he thought hed resolved the issues that made him leave, but he comes to understand that psychological trauma, childhood conditioning, parental and community expectations and his own need for community and family valorization are not easily exorcised. The third installment in theNo Safeguardsquartet of novels.
"I found this a compelling account of a gay man’s journey toward living an authentic life after the damage of a Caribbean upbringing shaped by religious intolerance. A major contribution by H. Nigel Thomas to a topic that has been little explored." —Olive Senior, author ofThe Pain Tree; Laureate: Commonwealth Literature Prize and The Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Award
H. Nigel Thomas came to Canada from St Vincent and the Grenadines in 1968. He is a retired professor of U.S. literature, the author of numerous essays and fourteen books, as well as the founder and co-host of Lectures Logos Readings. His books tend to focus on queer themes, parent-child relationships in Canada and the Caribbean, and the plethora of issues central to Afro-Caribbean and African Canadian existence. He has received many awards, including the 2022 Canada Council John Molson Prize for the Arts.
An LGBTQ+ novel with high commercial potential that traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. One of the few LGBTW+ novels on the market that deals with male same-sex marriage.
It is a fairly boisterous atmosphere we are drawn into at the outset and it comes in welcome sharp contrast to that trend of moody psycho-sexual novels about two or three lonesome people in downtown high-rises or sittil3£
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