Easily Fooled

by H. Nigel Thomas

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 he’d 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 the No Safeguards quartet of novels.

330 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2021

About the author

H Nigel Thomas was born in St Vincent. He attended university in Montreal and for ten years was a teacher with the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. He is now professor of literature at Laval University. His published works include the novel Spirits in the Dark, which was short-listed for the 1994 Quebec Writers’ Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction Award; How Loud Can the Village Cock Crow, short fiction; and Moving through Darkness, poetry.

Reviews

[Cora Siré · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easily Fooled is a thoughtful and provocative novel with compelling characters whose voices remain with the reader well after completing the book. H. Nigel Thomas is a masterful storyteller, holding the reader spellbound and captivated throughout.

[Madi Anivar · Rating 5 out of 5]

You should read this book if your caribbean and Queer. You'll recognize yourself between your religious education and your quest for being yourself. Millington doesn't live, he is suffocated. Being openly gay when your are carribean is a threat for your life. You know it would be difficult to put a foot on your homeland. You should certainly have to cut yourself from your family.
Millington loves his mama, and Jay. His life is a real dilemma.