Sarah Krasnostein is an author recognized for her non-fiction work. Her book, The Trauma Cleaner, explores unique life stories and experiences. She writes with a clear, direct style, inviting readers into complex human narratives.
The Trauma Cleaner
The Trauma Cleaner
Synopsis
Sandra Pankhurst cleans up after the dead and the desperate. Through her company, Specialized Trauma Cleaning, she scrubs the aftermath of suicides, homicides, and lonely deaths, and wades into the homes of hoarders and the gravely unwell — bringing order, and a startling tenderness, to scenes most people could never face.
But Sandra's own life is as extraordinary as any she encounters. Born in 1953 and given up by her adoptive parents, she was, over the decades, a husband and father, a drag queen, a sex worker, a trophy wife, and a trans woman who fought to become herself. Sarah Krasnostein braids Sandra's astonishing biography together with scenes from her working days, and confronts the gaps and uncertainties in a story its subject could not always fully remember.
The Trauma Cleaner is an award-winning work of literary non-fiction — part biography, part meditation on trauma, survival, and compassion — that finds profound humanity in the places we most want to look away from.
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Characters
Sandra PankhurstProtagonist
The trauma cleaner whose extraordinary life is the book's subject.
Sarah KrasnosteinSupporting
The author, who narrates and investigates Sandra's story.
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Edition
The Trauma CleanerUnknown, 2017
271 pages
Text PublishingLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9781925498523
