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.
And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book. It’s a decade-long slow-burn, but this one last trip, and its final destination, is worth every little side alley detour. You’ll find your heart aching even as you laugh because Poppy struggles to conceal the depth of her wild love for her straight-laced Alex. I’m in awe of how well Emily Henry accomplished something so complex: the complete history of a friendship, told across the vacations they shared. Can she mend this rift between them and win back the heart of her best friend-and dream man? Now stuck in a rut and desperate to regain her love for travel, Poppy invites homebody Alex on one last trip: a messy shoestring affair, like the old days. Then, something happens in Croatia, and they don’t speak for two years. From the scrappy low-budget trips of their early days to the upscale getaways made possible when Poppy lands her dream job at a travel magazine, their friendship has survived it all. But miraculously, they’re also best friends, and ever since college, they’ve taken an annual summer vacation together. It’s equal parts hilarious and shockingly tender. People We Meet on Vacation is a collection of in-joke travel memories. When you’re traveling with your favorite person, a few stains don’t matter. My husband was bumped by the crowd and nudged me in the back of my shirt with his enormous greasy sausage-also on a stick-and we got the giggles.
I would have loved detailed, I-feel-like-I’m-there descriptions but I also appreciated the way Emily Henry chose to structure the novel (it made for a more compelling romance, and I loved her overall writing style).I ate a block of tofu from a stick in Kyoto, and it dripped down my shirt. I felt like I could see Poppy’s mind and thoughts and guard slowly being broken down trip-by-trip, but I didn’t feel like I was traveling through the cities mentioned. I mean, I felt immersed in the summer trips but not in the way I expected. I was hoping People We Meet On Vacation would be about the different people Poppy met on vacation.
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t totally sold on the travel aspect of this book. And I loved how little one-liners and inside jokes showcased the depth of their relationship. Poppy and Alex’s friendship is strong and powerful and complicated. Let’s chat about People We Meet On Vacation. Eden Book Club: People We Meet On Vacation Discussion
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