Mud on the Moon

“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 Mnoa, 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.

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