'We Wish You Luck' is out next week.
Caroline Zancan’s We Wish You Luck is not the first novel set at a writing program, but she tells a fresh story nonetheless. For one, the book takes place at a low-residency writing program, where students only stay on campus for a week or two each semester, and do the rest of their work remotely with a faculty advisor.
The reader knows from the beginning that something has happened in the Fielding MFA program, but it’s not quite clear what. The first-person plural POV is a unique choice, but it works in this novel. Although the writing cohort is telling the story, the tale centers on a threesome within the program – Hannah, Leslie, and Jimmy – and a best-selling author, Simone, who is a visiting professor.
ADVERTISEMENT Zancan adeptly describes the naked wanting, aspirations, and work that are part of the MFA experience, but she also shows how devastating cruelty or even mere criticism can be depending on how it is received and the recipient’s mindset. The novel’s characters are multi-dimensional, and despite their realistic traits, Zancan avoids falling into typical tropes of writing students.
As the novel unfolds, it’s like a Russian nesting doll: the most basic layer merely tells you what happened, but as you get further into the story, you learn more, and offshoots of the original event spiral out into their own explosions, causing collateral damage that is only apparent later on. This makes for a unique story, one with ongoing reverberations throughout.
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