Pain Eater: A Memoir: 2nd Edition

by Kait Moon

An atypical tale of love, loss, and magic. This is a memoir, but it’s not in a straight line of stories with a nice clean ending. It’s a pull-you-by-the-hand series of short pieces that meet the chaos, trauma, and resilience of the human spirit head on. It contains slices of each stage of life, crossing timelines and spanning decades. Part diary, part history, the casual and intimate prose, poetry and short stories highlight the struggles and triumphs of a life lived on the edge of poverty underscored by the intersecting challenges of disability, chronic illness, parenting, sexual assault, homelessness, substance abuse. This is an hours-long chat with a friend, not a documentary of a tidy life. It’s the pieces we try to hide from, but which form us. This is what it looks like when one spends a lifetime eating pain for dinner and you’re invited to the main course. Follow Kait Moon on social media and connect with their growing online community via the links on this site.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2019

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