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Cover of The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster

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

✍ Scribed by Krasnostein, Sarah

Book ID
109972096
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
4 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781925498523

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 deadβ€”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.

_I call my dad from the car and ask him about his...

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