![]() It’s so singular that it’s almost irresistible indeed, if you can get past the gushing and the gruesome, “The Trauma Cleaner” is a book you shouldn’t wait to get your hands on. ![]() This is a biography of cringing, compassion, and somebody’s-got-to-do-it resourcefulness, plus irritations, but with a breezy heft of fabrication built in. The opposite of trauma is order, proportion. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner:One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of naturaland unnaturalcatastrophes and fatalities. The goodness – and there’s an industrial-sized dustpan full of it – comes between the lines. Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster tags: inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes 13 likes Like The opposite of trauma is not the absence of trauma. ![]() She’s also exceedingly, perhaps needlessly, explicit in details of a sexual nature while largely ignoring big opportunities for enlightenment on the business side of the book. ![]() Here, though, Krasnostein uses familiarity to gush about her subject in a way that could make readers wince uncomfortably. Says Pankhurst, “None of us know what tomorrow’s got in store.”Īs enjoyable as this unique tale is, there are a few things you’ll need to know before you sweep through “The Trauma Cleaner.”įirst of all, in her get-to-know-you time, author Sarah Krasnostein became close friends with her subject, which is good in most cases. ![]()
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