Hold Your Light

Rodney Blake narrates stories about growing up as a weird little kid who preferred to stay in his room and read, listen to records and think about the other boys in his class at school. His parents hated the music, but thinking about other boys is something they hated enough he was sent to boarding school and was not allowed to come home. The day Rodney went away his family’s maid Sophie sang that song, the one called “Hold Your Light.” When she got to the part where they sang people’s names she looked right at him and sang, “Hold your light brother Rodney hold your light.” In the pages that follow Rodney conquers a weight problem that kept him from doing what he excelled at, riding horses; a sport where he finds his two mothers (his riding teacher and her partner) who raise him as their son while he is influenced by a series of mystical acts guiding him to “Hold Your Light” on a journey in accepting his sexuality and developing his equestrian abilities.