
The Trauma Cleaner
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Rachael Tidd
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 40 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.
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Literature.
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction.
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The book was written with such compassion, respect, and admiration for Sandra, that it kept me listening through the most difficult parts of the narrative.
Well done, Sarah, and well done, Sandra.
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