May 10, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tombs & Tomes Book Club May

This month’s pick

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

Tombs and Tomes is Congressional Cemetery’s book club.

We meet every other month on the second Tuesday in our historic Chapel, and we discuss primarily non-fiction books.

Our book selections have no rhyme and reason; however, our choices tend to stray towards the macabre, as is natural for a cemetery book club. Our very first meeting was in September 2013 and we chose to read Stiff, by Mary Roach.

It’s free to join, and mostly free to attend. For each in-person meeting, we simply ask that you bring either a $5 donation or a bit of food or wine to share with the group. Extra points for brownies!

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Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of society’s most in-need people.

Sandra Pankhurst founded her trauma cleaning business to help people whose emotional scars are written on their houses. From the forgotten flat of a drug addict to the infested home of a hoarder, Sandra enters properties and lives at the same time. But few of the people she looks after know anything of the complexity of Sandra’s own life. Raised in an uncaring home, Sandra’s miraculous gift for warmth and humour in the face of unspeakable personal tragedy mark her out as a one-off.

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Date:
May 10, 2022
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Website:
https://congressionalcemetery.org/tombs-and-tomes-book-club/

Venue

Historic Congressional Cemetery
1801 E Street, Southeast
Washington, DC 20003 United States
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Phone
(202) 543-0539
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