Easily Fooled (Guernica Editions), the latest novel by St. Vincent-born, Canada-based writer H. Nigel Thomas, is the third in his “No Safeguards” quartet. Millington, a gay Vincentian and former Methodist minister, had migrated to Canada, where he now lives with his husband Jay — who he fears is about to depart. “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 valorisation are not easily exorcised.”