We are both silent before we laugh and answer in unison: ‘Faeces.’ But the difference is this phone call. ‘What’s the difference between a private library and a book hoarder?’ he wonders.
‘Books and cats, mainly,’ I tell the man who loves his cats and who I know is now actively considering his extensive book collection. I call my dad from the car and ask him about his morning, tell him about mine. Read our full review of The Trauma Cleaner || Grab a copy || Listen to the podcast on iTunes or on Stitcher for Android She lives in Melbourne and spends part of the year working in New York City. Her essay ‘The Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner’ was published on Longreads and listed in Narratively’s Top 10 Stories for 2014. Earning her doctorate in criminal law, she is a law lecturer and researcher. 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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