The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster

Author(s): Sarah Krasnostein

Memoirs & Biography

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead - and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.

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General Fields

  • : 9781925603897
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.244
  • : October 2019
  • : ---length:- '19.8'width:- '12.9'units:- Centimeters
  • : October 2019
  • : books

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  • : Sarah Krasnostein
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 648.5092
  • : 261
  • : B