The Trauma Cleaner. One Woman's Extraordinary Life In Death, Decay & Disaster

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 261 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnosteins The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of societys most in-need people. Sandra Pankhurst founded her trauma cleaning business to help people whose emotional scars are written on their houses. From the forgotten flat of a drug addict to the infested home of a hoarder, Sandra enters properties and lives at the same time. But few of the people she looks after know anything of the complexity of Sandras own life. Raised in an uncaring home, Sandras miraculous gift for warmth and humour in the face of unspeakable personal tragedy mark her out as a one-off.This is a truly unique book, taking the humanity of S-Town, the beauty of H Is for Hawk and the sensitivity of When Breath Becomes Air to create something of startling originality. About the authorSarah Krasnostein is a writer and a lawyer with a doctorate in criminal law. A fourth generation American and a third generation Australian, she has lived and worked in both countries. She lives in Melbourne and spends part of the year working in New York City. The Trauma Cleaner (Text Publishing / St Martins Press) is her first book.

ISBN: 9781925498523