ABOUT
THE BOOK

Tshepo, a young student at Rhodes, is strange. He reads esoteric books, for example. And he has a difficult time keeping up with his mind. So when he finds himself at the Valkenberg mental facility, it is perhaps not entirely due to ‘cannabis- induced psychosis’. He is being propelled both by his efforts to make sense of the present and by his past – a past in a violent country, where in one night he lost his mother to death, his father to crime, and himself to daunting uncertainty.
How is he to bring together the shattered pieces of his life? He is a lonely youth, and as the lonely often do, he seeks solace in strange places and among shady people. But twilight is yet a form of light, and it is in the subculture of male prostitution that he finds answers – and comfort – for the first time.
Discovering first his true sexuality, and then that sexuality is only a key to the greater realms of a hidden, mythical humanity, Tshepo can finally tap into the ancient powers that are his birthright.