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  • Published: 18 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9780525534945
  • Imprint: Riverhead
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $27.99

We Wish You Luck

A Novel



An exhilarating novel about a group of students who take revenge on a wunderkind professor after she destroys one of their own-- a story of collective drive to create, sabotage, and ultimately, to love.

A Belletrist Book Club Selection 
Named a Best Book of 2020 by goop, ELLE and Vanity Fair
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The MillionsLit Hub, Marie Claire

An exhilarating novel about a group of students who take revenge on a wunderkind professor after she destroys one of their own-- a story of collective drive to create, sabotage, and ultimately, to love.

It doesn't take long for the students on Fielding campus to become obsessed with Hannah, Leslie and Jimmy. The three graduate students are mysterious, inaccessible, and brilliant. Leslie, glamorous and brash, has declared that she wants to write erotica and make millions. Hannah is quietly confident, loyal, elegantly beautiful, and the person they all want to be; and Jimmy is a haunted genius with no past. After Simone - young, bestselling author and erstwhile model - shows up as a visiting professor, and after everything that happened with her, the trio only become more notorious.

Love. Death. Revenge. These age-old tropes come to life as the semesters unfold. The threesome came to study writing, to be writers, and this is the story they've woven together: of friendship and passion, of competition and envy, of creativity as life and death. Now, they submit this story, We Wish You Luck, for your reading pleasure.

  • Published: 18 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9780525534945
  • Imprint: Riverhead
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $27.99

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Praise for We Wish You Luck

Praise for We Wish You Luck:

"Caroline Zancan's wizardry is difficult to summarize: her prose is precise, deft, cutting--summing up a glance, an intent, a person's inner weather with perfect efficiency, and making it look easy. We Wish You Luck is a book for anyone who's ever had literature change their life. It makes the undeniable case for the power of words on a page--their power to make us, and to break us apart completely." --Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin

"A seductive and tightly controlled literary revenge story. With a dash of The Secret History, We Wish You Luck is a wonderful, hypnotic novel about craft, narrative, and the stakes of literary production." --Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State

"We Wish You Luck is a thrilling tale, a puzzle that isn't so much assembled as revealed by its crafty chorus of We. I loved watching the story unfold, and I loved never knowing if the collective impulse was to create or destroy. A smart, fun read." --Lindsay Hunter, author of Eat Only When You're Hungry and Ugly Girls

"A coming-of-age story filled with fascinating, richly imagined characters, Zancan tells the story of writers and their intricate, at times darkly ruinous desires. It's rare to describe a book about writing as 'addictive,' but that's exactly what Zancan has done here." --Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses

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