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The Trauma Cleaner
Winner, The 2018 Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sand...
Summary of Sarah Krasnostein's The Believer
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The death doula is a trained professional who provides emotional, physical, and educational support to families before, during, and after the death of a loved one. #2 Annie is a professional mediator who helps clients find solutions to their problems. She is highly trained and has to be able to support herself if she is to continue providing this type of service. She is a perpetual intimate stranger. #3 Annie’s interest in dying and death is not morbid, but rather just lacking in discussion. She was raised by her mother and sister after her parents split up when she was six months old, and she remembers being left in the dark about what was going to happen next. #4 The difference between life and the story of a life is that life is full of details and stories, while the story of a life is just a narrative. Annie’s sister did not know who she was for a long time, and a rift developed between them as a result.
Not Waving, Drowning
How can we mend Australia’s broken mental health system? Mental illness is the great isolator - and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects everybody in one way or another. Yet today Australia's mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose, and the pandemic is only making things worse. What is to be done? In this brilliant mix of portraiture and analysis, Sarah Krasnostein tells the stories of three women and their treatment by the state while at their most unwell. What do their experiences tell us about the likelihood of institutional and cultural change? Krasnostein argues that we live in a society that often punishe...
Summary of Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Sandra is the founder of Specialized Trauma Cleaning Services Pty. Ltd. She has been cleaning up death, sickness, and madness for the past 20 years. She is one of the world’s unofficial experts on the living aspects of death. #2 Sandra works at a STC Services, and she spends much of her time there. She is constantly dealing with the smells of her clients, who she knows well. She does not, however, erase these people. #3 I met Sandra Pankhurst, a woman who had a forward orientation that was fundamental to her character. She had saved her life by focusing on the future. I learned that she was like you or me, but also utterly peerless. #4 The time line is never clear for Sandra, because she has never had any reason to repeat it honestly or in full. But she has been reunited with her family, and that is what is most important to her.
Found, Wanting
On Valentine's Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their future, Natasha Sholl and her partner Rob went to bed. A few hours later, at the age of 27, his heart stopped. Found, Wanting tells the story of Natasha's attempt to rebuild her life in the wake of Rob's sudden death, stumbling through the grief landscape and colliding with the cultural assumptions about the 'right way' to grieve. It is a memoir about falling in love in the aftermath of loss, and what it means to build a life in the space that death leaves. Furious and passionate, bracingly honest and beautiful, Found, Wanting is above all, a memoir about living and making sense of the multitude of lives within us...
The Shape of Sound
A vivid and essential memoir of deafness, disability and identity by Australian writer Fiona Murphy
The Life of Stuff
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black biography prize 2019 'A moving memoir.' Sunday Times 'Gripped me from the first page.' Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless Nights 'A gripping read... a riveting piece of writing.' Radio 4 __________ What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them? What becomes of the things we leave behind? Only after her mother's death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, Susannah has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures - filling bag after bag with possessions. But what she's really in search of is a woman she'd never really kn...
One Last Dance
A sassy, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping memoir of life behind the scenes in a funeral home and strip club, written with all the panache, honesty and sensitivity of Rosie Waterland's The Anti-Cool Girl and Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner. Emma Jane Holmes had her dream job, working in the funeral industry, caring for those who could no longer care for themselves. But when the bills mounted after her marriage breakdown, she turned to her other dream - dancing on stage as a showgirl - and her glittering alter ego Madison was born. Emma Jane kept Madison a secret. Madison kept Emma Jane an even bigger one. But what happens when death touches the neon world of the strip club? And sex - in...
Ladies, We Need To Talk
Ladies, We Need To Talk breaks the stigma around everything women are thinking but not saying. Yumi Stynes and Claudine Ryan cover all the trickiest taboo topics from their hit podcast, from bodies and mental health to sex and relationships. The ABC podcast Ladies, We Need To Talk has been tearing open the sealed section on life for years, but host Yumi Stynes and co-creator Claudine Ryan know there’s still way more to say. In this book, they dive further into the podcast topics that resonated most with sensitivity, hilarity and serious smarts, and open the conversation further to include personal stories from listeners. Want to discover the wonders of your vagina or know how to close the orgasm gap? Are you riding your hormonal rollercoaster blindfolded or feeling a bit weird about your period? Do you want to kick your mental load to the kerb or consider the alternatives to monogamy? You're not the only one – and there’s no need to go it alone. Ladies, We Need To Talk is a book for all women who feel the squeeze between their private life and their pelvic floor.
The Godmother
Inspiration for the major motion picture Mama Weed; translated from the international bestseller La Daronne, winner of the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s most prestigious prize for crime fiction Meet Patience Portefeux, a fifty-three-year-old, underpaid Franco-Arab interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specializes in phone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her aging mother. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that...
