TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krasnostein,Sarah
TI  - The trauma cleaner: one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster 
SN  - 9781925498523
AV  - KRA 
U1  - 648.5 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - Text Publishing Company
KW  - Pankhurst, Sandra.
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Biography
KW  - Cleaning personnel
KW  - Australia
KW  - Death
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Crime scenes
KW  - Cleaning
KW  - Pankhurst, Sandra
KW  - Violent deaths - Cleaning
KW  - Cleaning personnel - Biography
KW  - Accidents - Cleaning
KW  - Violent deaths
KW  - Accidents
KW  - Australian
KW  - lcgft
N2  - It's not the police, firefighters, or EMTs that clean up a crime scene - that's the job of a trauma cleaner, specifically Sandra Pankhurst. 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
ER  -