NITA NOVENO

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Publication date: August 11, 2026

Recipient of the 2024 Women’s Prose Prize —Red Hen Press

Mud on the Moon is a hybrid memoir that weaves a daughter’s journey of discovering her Filipino immigrant father’s hidden past with imaginative storytelling, offering a look into migration, identity, and the intergenerational legacies that shape who we are.

. . . a beautiful story of a daughter in the act of knowing her father. . . . stitching and restitching memories, records, artifacts, history, mystery, and fiction.
Ananda Limaauthor of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil and Mother/land
A mind and genre-bending generational exploration into immigration and family. Nita Noveno has a researcher’s eye and an artist’s heart and has come up with an astoundingly new form of memoir.
Marie Myung-Ok Leeauthor of "The Evening Hero" and "Somebody’s Daughter"
A lyrical, innovative memoir linking Philippine history to the American present...always artful, engaging, and above all embracing of multiple worlds and times, Noveno is a voice for our complex moment.
Gina Apostolauthor of "La Tercera" and "Insurrecto"
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