![]() Sarah Krasnostein was born in America, studied in Melbourne and has lived and worked in both countries. It is not just the compelling story of a fascinating life it is an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together. ![]() Sarah Krasnostein has watched the magnificent Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to the living and the dead – and the book she has written is remarkable. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. The still life of a home vacated by an accidental overdose.īut as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. A woman who lives with rats, random debris, and terrified delusion. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. Ī woman who sleeps among the garbage she has not put out for forty years. Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra was many things: husband and father, drag queen, sex reassignment patient, sex worker, businesswoman, trophy wife. It tells the remarkable true story of Sandra Pankhurst, a woman who has lived many kaleidoscopic lives. Sarah Krasnostein’s book The Trauma Cleaner has been causing a stir in Australia since release. So the gift of her candour when I showed interest was something I was always grateful for.’ ![]() So understandably she didn’t share her complete life history with many people. ‘The consequences for living openly as a transwoman were life-threatening. ![]()
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