- Title:
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster
- Written by:
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Sarah Krasnostein
- Read by:
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Rachael Tidd
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 18 minutes
- Published:
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October 28 2018
- Available Date:
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October 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489460783
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; Emotional Wellbeing; True Crime
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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Bestseller
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