The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
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 that she has not put out for forty years. A man who quietly bled 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, this is also an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Sarah Krasnostein. (2018). The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sarah Krasnostein. 2018. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster. Blackstone Publishing, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sarah Krasnostein. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2018.
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Shared Digital Collection | 3 | 1 |
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/{05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/{05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781982483616
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781538588444
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781982483616
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781538588444
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Sarah Krasnostein
- title
- The Trauma Cleaner
- dateAdded
- 2018-05-04T23:20:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=3844607
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Trauma Cleaner One Womans Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death Decay and Disaster
- crossRefId
- 3844607
- subtitle
- One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
- id
- 05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64
- starRating
- 3.8
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 09:22:12
- fileName: TheTraumaCleaner_9781538588451_3844607
- partCount: 10
- fileSize: 267503280
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781982483616
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781538588444
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 4/10/2018
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3844607-TheTraumaCleaner.mp3
- source: From the book
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=05f1bb55-ecd8-48dc-ad62-cfeb5b5e0a64&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 09:17:13
- fileName: TraumaCleanerOneWomansExtraordinaryLifeintheBu-152
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 267469841
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781982483616
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781538588444
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 4/10/2018
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3844607-TheTraumaCleaner.mp3
- source: From the book
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=05f1bb55-ecd8-48dc-ad62-cfeb5b5e0a64&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Krasnostein, Sarah
- bioText:
Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and a lawyer with a PhD in criminal law. A fourth generation American and a third generation Australian, she has lived and worked in both countries.
- name: Sarah Krasnostein
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Tidd, Rachael
- name: Rachael Tidd
- publishDate
- 2018-04-10T00:00:00-04:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Trauma Cleaner
- fullDescription
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 that she has not put out for forty years. A man who quietly bled 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, this is also an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.
- reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
December 11, 2017
Krasnostein, an Australian legal academic, profiles transgender trauma cleaner Sandra Pankhurst in this intriguing but vexing debut biography. Pankhurst runs a small business cleaning homes marred by blood, feces, drugs, mold, and garbage, but her personal history proves more fascinating. Krasnostein explores this history in chapters that alternate with cleaning-site visits. Six of the eight visits feature hoarders or squalor; two are to sites where accidental deaths occurred. Krasnostein details each site with tragic if repetitive effect, but rarely convincingly ties them to Pankhurst’s life story. Born male and subsequently adopted and abused, Pankhurst eventually landed a blue-collar job, a wife, a drug addiction, and a prostitution habit, and helped raise two children, whom he abandoned to pursue a sex-change. After undergoing surgery, Pankhurst became a funeral director, married a wealthy husband, lost a business, then started a new one. At times she displays a violent temper, cheats on her spouses, exploits her employees, dismisses other trans people, and neglects her children, leaving them in poverty. Krasnostein downplays the complexity of Pankhurst’s existence in favor of a glowing paean laden with cloying therapy-couch clichés and overwrought metaphors (“I listened to Sandra’s news like it was the middle of the Han dynasty and she had just returned west from the Silk Road”). A complex protagonist makes for engaging material, but Krasnostein’s fawning adulation minimizes and excuses her subject’s flaws in favor of creating an inspirational story that never quite rings true.
- popularity
- 1123
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/05f1bb55-ecd8-48dc-ad62-cfeb5b5e0a64/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 05f1bb55-ecd8-48dc-ad62-cfeb5b5e0a64
- starRating
- 3.8
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/{05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/{05F1BB55-ECD8-48DC-AD62-CFEB5B5E0A64}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Biography & Autobiography
- value: True Crime
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 04/10/2018
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781538588390
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
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 that she has not put out for forty years. A man who quietly bled 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, this is also an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.
- sortTitle
- Trauma Cleaner One Womans Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death Decay and Disaster
- crossRefId
- 3844607
- subtitle
- One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
- publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- bisacCodes
- code: BIO022000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Women
- code: TRU000000
- description: True Crime / General