Fiction. "A Bahamian vacation turns into a nightmarish dreamworld in Tsipi Keller's smart, sly JACKPOT. Maggie has long been cowed by her beautiful friend Robin, so when Robin leaves Paradise Island for a spur-of-the-moment sailing trip, Maggie has a chance to shine. Instead, she descends into wild gambling and even wilder sex, though she somehow retains her innocence. Keller expertly charts Maggie's transformation in this accomplished and oddly gripping novel"--Publisher's Weekly.

Author City: W PALM BEACH, FL USA

Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the United States since 1974. Her short fiction, and her poetry translations, have appeared in many journals and anthologies; her novels, The Prophet of Tenth Street (1995) and Leverage (1997) were translated into Hebrew and published by Sifriat Poalim. (Currently, The Prophet of Tenth Street is being translated into German.) Keller's translation of Dan Pagis's posthumous collection, Last Poems, was published by The Quarterly Review of Literature (1993), and her translation of Irit Katzir's posthumous collection, And I Wrote Poems, was published by Carmel in 2000. Among her awards are: A National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants, and an Armand G. Erpf award from Columbia University. Her novels RETELLING (2006) and JACKPOT (2004) were published by Spuyten Duyvil.

Reviews and Other Links
http://tsipi.blogspot.com/
http://allegedgravitas.blogspot.com/2005/07/book-review-jackpot-by-tsipi-keller.html
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/10/books/off-the-shelv
http://blogcritics.org/books/article/claustrophobia-in-paradise-jackpot-by-tsipi/
http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0972066217.asp