Quand Paul, écrivain en devenir, épouse Carlos et l’emmène de Guatemala à Montréal, leur histoire vire au drame. Entre rupture, maladie et quête de sens, ce roman explore avec justesse la résilience et les liens qui nous sauvent.

No Safeguards, the first in a trilogy, follows Jay and his brother Paul from childhood to young adulthood. We witness the destructive impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs on their mother and father, opposition to those beliefs by the boys' grandmother and each boy's very different response to their parents' religiosity. This becomes even more poignant after they leave their grandmother's comfortable home in St. Vincent to join their mother in Montreal. The revelation that both boys are gay adds to their sense of oppression and divides them from their mother, whose views are shaped by the church and the theology of the Torah.