The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster [DIY Book Club]
Krasnostein, Sarah2017
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Click and Collect for The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster [DIY Book Club]It's not the police, firefighters, or EMTs that clean up a crime scene - that's the job of a trauma cleaner, specifically Sandra Pankhurst. 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 loungeroom. 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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The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster [DIY Book Club] / by Sarah Krasnostein.
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Imprint:
Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing Company, 2017, 2018.
Collation:
261 pages : coloured illustraions, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references.
ISBN:
9781925498523
Dewey class:
648.5
Language:
English
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BRN:
344814
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | DIY Book Club | 12 copies in setOnloan - Due: 07 Jun 2024 |
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