People We Meet on Vacation

by Penguin
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By Emily Henry (2021)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

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Priya Mehta
Priya Mehta
4.1
Alex and Poppy's dynamic is beautifully observed.

Two timelines alternating between past summers and a present trip, building toward an emotional payoff that I saw coming and cried at anyway, which is the mark of a skilled author. Alex and Poppy's dynamic is beautifully observed — the specific texture of a friendship that becomes something else over years. My minor complaint: the present-timeline sections feel slightly slower than the past sections and the book loses some momentum in its second third. Still four very solid stars.

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