Screen LibraryThe 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 believ...
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St. Martin's Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2017 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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"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."--Jacket flap. |
| Carrier Form: | 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781250101204 (hardcover) : 1250101204 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | HD8039 |
| CLC: | K836.118.9 |
| Call Number: | K836.118.9/P193K |