A Different Hurricane (Dundurn Press) by H Nigel Thomas presents the realities of LGBTQI+ discrimination, seen through the experiences of two young men who must flee their homophobic circumstances in St Vincent, to seek better but separate lives. When they return, Gordon and Allan do not emerge into society as themselves; they elect to rejoin the secrecy under which they first fell in love. A Different Hurricane confronts the harms caused, not only to the ill-fated lovers, but to those in their immediate lives, through these damaging silences and mechanisms of shame-mongering. This is a sobering but inarguably timely read.