The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a…
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