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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.

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5.0

Wow! What a story! Sandra Parkhurst is honestly one incredible woman; reading Sarah’s story of her was heartbreaking and hopeful all at once and I could not stop reading. I felt as though I could only imagine the trauma and the hurt that Sandra had been through, and yet these were things you could almost forget when she was at work helping others to ‘clean up their lives’. It was fascinating getting a peek into what ‘cleaning up trauma scenes’ actually meant and how this was executed. It also really surprised me that it was hardly the police/other figures of authority that did any of that! 😳 This book doesn’t come with an ‘ending’ per se, but I felt like everything I wanted to know was addressed and that it made me feel tearful, angry and happy all at once 😂 A true rollercoaster of emotions comes into play whilst reading this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone ❤️ I might even come back to read/skim it again (and I don’t feel the need to do that with many books). Thank you!

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3.5

what an interesting person and a well done capturing of a life. sandra is surprising and very resilient and brave but not a perfect person, and not someone who conforms to a stereotype, that would not be in her nature. it is interesting with biographies to read about a real life person because they do end up feeling a bit unreal and fictional, but it is important to remember that Sandra is a real life person. it is clear that the writer loves Sandra, and there even exists bias in that. there is a feeling of reality and imagined reality, truth and misremeberings, different perspectives and experiences, layered into Sandra's story, naturally because of her memory issues, which makes for an unstable telling of real life, but one that is still shocking, amazing, interesting and so sad. this book, and Sandra's life, has a lot of horrible traumatic moments and therefore readers should read with caution. i think that some of the present day cleaning chapters were repetitive and I found myself wanting to get back to Sandra's life narrative.

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