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

by Krasnostein, Sarah.

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St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Pankhurst, Sandra.

Cleaning personnel -- Australia -- Biography.

Death -- Australia.

Accidents -- Australia.

Transgender people -- Biography

9781250101204 (hc.)

First U.S. edition.

291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"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.

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