"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 Lee, author of The Evening Hero and Somebody’s Daughter

"Nita Noveno’s Mud on the Moon is a deeply hybrid, speculative nonfiction woven with memoir, whose brave pages defy expectations. Through archival research and letters to the reader, we watch Noveno’s father, Benito, journey from the Philippines to a hostile United States. The legacy of migration and its multiple violences reverberate through Noveno’s own conflicted relationships as she grows into racialized self-awareness. This book of multiple familial and societal devastations and detonations is necessary reading."
—Rajiv Mohabir, author of Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir

"Nita Noveno’s Mud on the Moon is unlike any nonfiction book I have ever encountered. With an historian’s rigor, a scholar’s analytical brain, and an artist’s eye, Mud on the Moon is a remarkable work of empathy, centering the specificity of the author’s father, a Filipino immigrant to the US, as a way to highlight the invisible histories of the very workers who have contributed to the economic success of this country. Through direct address to the reader, recreated historical scenes, documentation, images, drawings, musings, offerings, and recipes, the book is a “a passage of endless longings.” The author’s exploration of her father’s story is as moving as his story itself.  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 Talusan, author of The Body Papers 

"In her smart and generous memoir Mud on the Moon, Nita Noveno tells a deeply personal story about family, inheritance, and immigration, investigating the truth about her father’s journey from the Philippines to Alaska. Noveno presents a clear-eyed look at the complicated history of the American empire and the Philippines. At the same time, the book is a heartbreaking and inspiring narrative about the ways in which dreams and imagination shape our lives."
—Luis Jaramillo, author of The Witches of El Paso and The Doctor’s Wife

"Mud on the Moon is a lyrical, innovative memoir linking Philippine history to the American present, and the American past to Filipino lives, asking us to see contemporary America, especially but not only Filipino America, in novel ways, in both meanings of that word: as a complex and layered narrative demanding to be told and as an art experiment raising stakes on not only what it means to be American but also what it means to make art. Risk-taking, clear-eyed, but always artful, engaging, and above all embracing of multiple worlds and times, Noveno is, a voice for our complex moment."
—Gina Apostol, author of La Tercera and Insurrecto

"Mud on the Moon is a beautiful story of a daughter in the act of knowing her father. Noveno collects and creates the threads of his story, stitching and restitching memories, records, artifacts, history, mystery, and fiction. A delight of formal invention, this memoir brilliantly weaves narrative and photograph, father and daughter, fact and fiction, creating a moving, rich, multifaceted portrayal of the life of her father, a Filipino immigrant to the US, and her own."
—Ananda Lima, author of Craft: Stories / Wrote for the Devil and Mother/land

Nita Noveno teaches composition and literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at The New School, Nita is also the founder and host emeritus of Sunday Salon, a long-running reading series in New York City. Her work has appeared in Mãnoa, Identity Theory, Brink, Hippocampus, The Hunger, and the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Open City and The Margins, among other publications. Nita grew up in the temperate rainforest of Southeast Alaska and lives in Queens, NY.