New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/17/2014 -- 2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of THE MORNING SIDE OF THE HILL by novelist and literary translator Ezra E. Fitz.

Inspired by William Faulkner’s classic novel, THE WILD PALMS, Fitz asks readers: What if you anted up and kicked in everything you had on a belief, a hope, a dream, on faith, and you lost? This is one of the questions facing Willie and Mo, the two insecure, incomplete protagonists in THE MORNING SIDE OF THE HILL. Fitz’s translations of contemporary Latino literary giants such as Alberto Fuguet and Eloy Urroz, coupled with living and studying in New York City for a number of years, is the inspiration behind his Latino and Black characters that are authentic and compelling. Says Fitz, “This story takes place on street corners, and I wanted those street corners to sound as accurate and honest as possible.” While his characters tackle issues important to their respective communities, they also deal with issues any American family can relate to, which makes THE MORNING SIDE OF THE HILL a universal novel. In fact, Eloy Urroz, author of FRICCIÓN and THE OBSTACLES, says “There’s something of Ishiguro in this novel: it’s introspective, brooding, heartrending, yet never pretentious. In the end, it is an excellent first novel. I wish I had written something like this.”

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THE MORNING SIDE OF THE HILL
Paperback $16.99 | 162 pp., 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1940939261 (pbk.)
Release Date: October 1, 2014