The trauma cleaner one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster
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...
| Main Author: | Krasnostein, Sarah (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
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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| Physical Description: |
291 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781250101204 1250101204 |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |