The Trauma Cleaner
One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
"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."--Jacket flap.
Subjects:
Pankhurst, Sandra.
Cleaning personnel -- Australia -- Biography.
Death -- Australia.
Accidents -- Australia.
Death -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Pankhurst, Sandra.
Cleaning personnel -- Australia -- Biography.
Death -- Australia.
Accidents -- Australia.
Death -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781250101204
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Pankhurst, Sandra | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references.