Pain Eater: A Memoir

by Kait Moon

Pain Eater gnaws on love, childhood, motherhood, death, dreams, distance and connection.

This is a full course of the human heart.

A twelve year journey of travel and writing has given Kait Moon a complete book of text, poems, and dreams carved from their life and heart.
Pain Eater is a book of small pieces in the shape of pain; creative and destructive.
Written in thoughtful, revelatory text it takes us from mountain tops to wombs, bars to backseats to hotel rooms and into the land of dreams.

Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir

220 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2017

About the author

Kait Moon writes the words they long to read. The honest words, the painful words, the potent words of pain and loss and love and magic. They write about the struggles of poverty, parenting, substance abuse, their experiences as a homeless teen, as a disabled creative, as a solo parent. They write about confusion, sorrow, ecstasy and hope. They write about dreams (the ones while asleep and the waking ones) and the eternal flame of the indomitable human spirit.

Kait writes to connect to others who have experienced the tragedy and the pain of life but also for those that are trying to build bridges of understanding between themselves and what they do not know. Ultimately, each word is an offering to re-create a space where the worldwide human village can bear witness to, and become a part of, the healing we all deserve after our hearts have been broken and our time has run out.

Follow them on social media, and connect with their growing online community at Patreon.com/kaitmoon

Reviews

[Peter Gillet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pain Eater: A Memoir, by Kait Moon, is a memoir by the author of her life's journey so far. Its contents have been composed over decades, in both prose and verse. This work provides an insight into the past and present of the writer, and it will also make one reflect upon their own life's path. While reading it, at times I had to step away in order to manage the emotions it evoked within me. Her words paint a gritty picture of the harsh realities she has faced. At times I could smell the scene she set. A few of her shorter poems pack a tonne of message into a tight package, and stay with me.

I highly recommend this book for your home library. You will revisit its pages time and again.

[Katrine Engelhardt Thomsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I needed this book. I needed something to wake me from my drowsy reading patterns and my privilege and shake me to my core with its' honesty and heart clutching passion for all that life holds. The good, the bad, the blood, the wolves, the wonder of snow, the darkness and the light.

From the first lines "Pain Eater: A Memoir" struck me like a lightning bolt and I finished the book in one setting, unable to put it down again until the last words on the last page had been read. Hauntingly well written and full of sentences which beauty, humor, ghostly shadows and bursting insight will make you attempt to write them all down, hoping to carry them with you forever, only to have you give up because you would have to transcribe the entire book itself in full to get them all.

Kait Moon has somehow mastered the trick to writing about life - the trick of seeing the wonder of the small moments be they joyful, painful, hurtful, ugly or breathtaking in their sudden beauty, and share that moment for all that it is. Then Moon shakes the kaleidoscope once more and pulls the reader towards another vibrant moment and with no mercy throws the reader in the midst of it all once more only to twist the rainbows another way again after that.

Everything seeps in as you read the book. A life, an actual life is shown to you, not from a comfortable distance but straight on, up close, from the inside out.

"Pain Eater" is a book that will wake you in a way only the best books have the power to do. And it will make you dare to dream that your life too holds many stories worth telling, if only you have the courage to write them down and boldly share them as Kait Moon has done.

[Lisa Schagerström · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book in which we get to travel thru time and memories. Some passages really hit home and will break your heart.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this in a day, it's an easy/hard read.

Easy in that it flows and you get pulled in, there's no jarring syntax.

Hard in the subjects it covers. You smile, you cry, you frown, in the end having seen (albeit online) what Kait has become, you cheer.

I want more, I want to make a camp fire, roast marshmallows and listen to Kait.

[Art Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing view into a beautiful troubled heart. Highly recommended!

[Stefan · Rating 4 out of 5]

213 pages of emotion, raw emotion. Confusion, love, hate, happiness and pain. An interesting combination of stories and poetry. Certainly not an easy read at some points, but worth it. So worth it.

[Jake · Rating 5 out of 5]

This beautiful collection of essays and poetry touched and broke my heart. Moon is a colorful and wrenching writer who presents moments so real you must inhabit them. And yes, I read it in one sitting. Could not put it down.