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Sarah Krasnostein

Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and a lawyer with a doctorate in criminal law. A fourth generation American and a third generation Australian, she has lived and worked in both countries. Sarah’s narrative non-fiction is inspired by the invisible and marginalised worlds hinted at in the many criminal cases she has read over the past fifteen years. She lives in Melbourne and spends part of the year working in New York City. The Trauma Cleaner (Text Publishing / St Martin’s Press) is her first book. The Trauma Cleaner won the General Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2018 Australian Book Industry Award, and the Non-Fiction award and the Victorian Prize for Literature at the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. It won the Non-Fiction award at the 2019 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

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Title:

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster

Written by:

Sarah Krasnostein 

Read by:

Rachael Tidd 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

8 

Duration:

9 hours 18 minutes 

Published:

October 28 2018 

Available Date:

October 28 2018 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489460783 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian; Emotional Wellbeing; True Crime 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 39.95

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Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Victorian Prize for Literature 2018
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Non-Fiction 2018
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018
Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Award / Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year 2018
Shortlisted Dobbie Literary Award 2018
Longlisted Walkley Book Award / Non-Fiction 2018

Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. You've got to hear Sandra's incredible story.

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.

'[Sandra] is one of the most extraordinary characters you will ever find in a work of non-fiction … The Trauma Cleaner is a disturbing and fascinating read with a heavy, beating heart at its centre … [Krasnostein] shows how a writer can empathise and engage with a subject yet still paint a realistic portrait.'
The Australian

'Through countless encounters with the fetid, the neglected, and the downright tragic, Parkhurst has found meaning and peace, and [author] Krasnostein a singular subject whom she approaches with well-deserved awe.'
Booklist

'Krasnostein's playful yet heartfelt debut is one of the most arresting works of biography you will read in a long time.'
The Guardian