DarkWinter Press New Release: Grace Before the Fall by Geri Lipschultz

DarkWinter Press is over the moon to announce our latest release, the debut novel Grace Before the Fall by Geri Lipschultz, available now on Amazon in paperback and e-version for Kindle! You can buy it here!

About Grace Before the Fall:

Grace Before the Fall is a reminder that every girl has a little Joan of Arc in her wheelhouse. It is the time of the hostage crisis in Iran, and in New York City, it is long before the fall of the towers, just before AIDS has found itself a name, although young men are mysteriously dying, and Grace Rosinbloom is inheriting their furniture. In Geri Lipschultz's virtual love letter to the metropolis, Grace—a former actor, a former grad student, currently a civil servant by default—becomes a woman with a mission, an accidental activist whose search for love and meaning opens up doors to her dreamworld. Here is a picaresque novel that veers into magic realism as it enters the mind of a woman called upon to take a stand. Although set in pre-9/11 NYC, the novel's concerns still hold: environmental corruption, the threat of nuclear war, the rise of whistle blowing, and cyber hacking. 

“Just imagine magical realism meets Alice in Wonderland” 

From the Foreword by John Irving, author of numerous works, including A Prayer For Owen Meany, The Cider House Rules, and Queen Esther (Simon & Schuster, November 2025)

Advance Praise for Grace Before the Fall:

“Voices dance above a terrestrial balloon of ruin. Yet dancing voices may save the world! Gracie is a Rose in Bloom in search of love and holiness. What does it mean, what does it take, asks Geri Lipschultz’s novel Grace Before the Fall, to live in full sincerity yet stay within the absurd, ambiguous contours of language and world–to turn the skin of the mind inside out as it learns to speak? This is a novel in bloom. In her search for salvation and meaning, Gracie Rosinbloom is an illustrious great-niece of Salinger’s Holden Caulfield and Pynchon’s Oedipa Maas. In short, this is an intriguing and impressive book.”

  James Berger is author of The Meaning of Poems: Selected Poems (as) Poetics and other books of poetry and scholarship.

About Geri Lipschultz:

Twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, Geri Lipschultz has published in Terrain, World Literature Today, the Rumpus, Ms, The Toat, The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, College English, and many others. Her work appears in Pearson's Literature: Introduction to Reading and Writing, and in Spuyten Duyvil's Wreckage of Reason II. She has an MFA from Iowa and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. She currently teaches writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She received a Creative Artist Public Service (C.A.P.S.) fellowship from New York State. Her one-woman show was produced in New York City by Woodie King, Jr. She is one of three writers for the children's book of poems, Did You Kiss a Cat Today??? (which may be pre-ordered on Amazon).