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FRIGHTEN THE HORSES
by Oliver Radclyffe
Roxane Gay Books. 352 pages, $28.

NOVELISTIC AND EPISODIC, Oliver Radclyffe’s memoir Frighten the Horses is written with verve, humor, and specificity. His story begins in an affluent British family, where Oliver was raised to take his state of privilege for granted. Later in life, however, he would have to contend with the social challenges of a different kind of status: his transmasculine identity. “I’d been bound by the rules and regulations of upper-class English society since the day I was born,” he writes, “although even now in my diasporic state it is excruciating to admit this.”

Brian Alessandro is a writer who’s based in Roselle Park, NJ.