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5.0


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5.0

This biography is extremely well written.   Sandra Pankhurst endured a traumatic and abusive childhood.   She had an extraordinary life, as a transgender woman who survived many dangerous and heartbreakin  situations. She treats the clients of her trauma cleaning business with empathy and compassion.

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4.0

I like the interaction the author has with Sandra Pankurst and the reader. The details of each client and of each event in Sandra's life was written in a captivating manner. There are a few times where Sarah Krasnostein could have pulled back on, like the remarks. It breaks me from the main story. Other than that, a great biography. Wonderful and strong woman, Sandra Pankurst.

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2.0

I started reading this thinking it would be about the trauma cleaning but it is almost entirely the biography of Sandra who owns a trauma cleaning business with only a few stories of the cleaning interspersed between her life story.

Please read the trigger warnings before diving in to this.

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5.0


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2.5

I wish there was more information about the cleaning business and clients and less about Sandra. 

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2.0

Wow, what is this book? Genuinely... what is it supposed to be about? It's like the author is confused about whether to centre Sandra, trauma cleaning clients, or themself. They frequently diverge on tangents about their own past and traumas... why? I can see the logic for some inclusion of the trauma cleaning clients, to the point of illustrating Sandra's relationships and manner with them, but these chapters tend to veer off too deep into the clients' personal lives too. This is not even touching on how problematic the chapters on Sandra's past are. The author disclaims the accuracy of Sandra's memory, then goes on to describe most events in extreme (and often graphic) detail - so where are they getting this information from? This is really only disclosed in the chapters where Linda has provided additional detail. The telling of Sandra's upbringing is riddled with deadnaming and slurs, and I see why the author made this choice, but they really should have included a caveat preempting this and explaining why certain terms should no longer be used. TL;DR this is a messy, problematic biography that doesn't really know whose story it's trying to tell.

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