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The trauma cleaner: one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster

By Sandra , Krasnostein , Sarah;Pankhurst

Book information

Publisher
St. Martins Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781250101204, 9781250101211, 1250101212
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14773224 bytes)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Pages
(291 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illus
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Accidents;Accidents--Australia;Biography & AutobioSandra;Cleaning personnel -- Australia -- Biograph

Description

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 living room. 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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