Sarah Krasnostein
Auteur de The Trauma Cleaner
A propos de l'auteur
Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and lawyer, based in Melbourne, but also works part of the year in New York City. She has a doctorate in criminal law and is a lecturer and researcher. She focuses on the history of crime and punishment, comparative law, sentencing law and criminal justice policy. Her afficher plus first book is entitled, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster. It won the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards, General nonfiction book of the year, the 2018 Victorian Prize for Literature, and the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA (birth)
Australia
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 640
- Popularité
- #39,395
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 46
- ISBN
- 35
- Langues
- 1
Sandra Pankhurst was born, designated 'male', in the early fifties. She survived stomach-churning abuse and neglect at the hands of her adoptive parents, married and had children, performed in drag shows, had gender reassignment surgery, was a sex worker, remarried, ran businesses and created Specialised Trauma Cleaning (STC) Services Pty Ltd. STC is who you call when you need to clean up after hoarders, squalid or trashed properties, meth labs, homicides, suicides and "other death scenes." With seemingly boundless compassion and empathy coupled with a Puritan work-ethic, Mrs Pankhurst and her team bring hygiene, order and sweetness to the most fetid places hidden in ordinary suburbs.
Sarah Krasnostein has crafted a biography that is almost a love-letter, its language skillfully making an economical statement here, a sharp, shocking stab of pain there, or rising gracefully to some sunlit imagery or compassionate admiration of her subject, and her wounded clientele. It is also a shout into the darkness inhabited by cruel bigotry, malicious neglect and faceless beaurocracy, proclaiming, "Sandra, this is your story. You exist in the Order of Things and the Family of People. You belong, you belong, you belong."
The Trauma Cleaner deservedly won the 2018 Victorian Premier’s literary awards including the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature and the $25,000 category prize for nonfiction. I hope many people read Sandra Pankhurst's story, and I hope that Sandra can in some way use this book to create that deep feeling of belonging that enables us to truly connect with one another. I also hope to read more from Sarah Krasnostein in the future.… (plus d'informations)