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4.5


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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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Peter/Sandra is a terrible person who used a woman as cover, cheated on her, emotionally neglected her, manipulated her into swapping spouses (trafficking) to try to keep the marriage alive, then financial and emotionally abandoned the children.  I get it, hurt people hurt people, but that’s not an excuse.  Go to therapy and take care of your responsibilities.  When asked if there would be or ever was an attempt to find the kids the response was basically “forget that!  It would be hard and complicated and other people might have an emotion and I might have to take responsibility so no way!”

Despicable person.  I get that the job is to clean up the messes of others, and maybe in some misguided manner that is an attempt to make amends with the world, but that does nothing for the people that were injured by continued neglect.

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This biography is written like an anthropological study of a trans woman by a cis woman and that gets old real quick. Giving cis people equal ability to discuss the main character's gender and existence is seen as journalism here when it's really casual transphobia dressed up as opinion. I think the person that this book is about is fascinating, yet the delivery of the content is too cringe for me.

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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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5.0


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3.0


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4.0


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3.25


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