Sarah Krasnostein Books

Each time Sandra walks into a home, she treats it like sacred ground. It may be a hoarder’s apartment lined with towers of unwashed dishes or the room where someone has died undisturbed for days. She begins not with a mop but with respect. Her process is deliberate, ritualized: greeting each site as...

From The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Long before she became the serene professional known for kindness, Sandra lived as a child named Peter in a home that offered no safety. Adopted into a family that treated him as less than their biological children, Peter endured physical and emotional abuse that shaped his earliest understanding of...

From The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster