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"
"This book of multiple familial and societal devastations and detonations is necessary reading."
Rajiv MohabirAuthor of "Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir"
"Noveno's Mud on the Moon is a timely intervention in the debate about who is American as it charts a course through Filipino American history."
Grace TalusanAuthor of "The Body Papers"
"...a heartbreaking and inspiring narrative about the ways in which dreams and imagination shape our lives."
Luis Jaramilloauthor of The "Witches of El Paso" and "The Doctor's Wife"
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