Summary of People We Meet on Vacation By Emily Henry

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Poppy and Alex. There isn't a single thing they share in common. He's dressed in khakis and she's a wild youngster. He loves to stay at home with a book, while she has an unquenchable wanderlust. And they've been the best of friends ever since a disastrous car ride home from college many years ago. They live far apart for the majority of the year—she in New York City, and he in their little hometown—but they have spent one lovely week of vacation together every summer for the past decade.
Until they damaged everything two years ago. Since then, they haven't talked.
Poppy has all she needs, but she can't seem to get out of her rut. When others ask her when she was last really happy, she knows it was on that final, ill-fated vacation with Alex. As a result, she resolves to persuade her closest friend to spend one more trip with her—to lay everything out on the table and make things okay. Surprisingly, he agrees.
She now has a week to get things in order. If she could just get over the one major fact that has always lurked in the background of their seemingly ideal relationship. What's the worst that might happen?

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.B. Publishers
• Release date: Dec 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9780463401330

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Summary

Emily Henry is an American novelist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Henry has made a name for herself in taking traditional romance-novel tropes and adding modern twists, Katie Tamola writes in a May 10, 2021 interview with Henry on Shondaland.com. Beach Read (2020) and People We Meet on Vacation (2021) were both New York Times bestsellers. Both books are contemporary romances with a holiday setting and the attraction of opposites: a serious, literary guy and a fun-loving heroine.

People We Meet on Vacation is described as a homage to screenwriter Nora Ephron's 1989 film When Harry Met Sally by following two best friends for a decade and chronicling the growth of their relationship in the FAQ section of Henry's website. Henry offers an alternative to the current quest for rapid pleasure by revisiting the style of this antique romance with its representation of a passion building through time.

Angela Haupt of the Washington Post writes that Henry freshens [...] up Ephron's novel with her signature wit, epic near misses, and steamy longing that threatens to seep through the page, fogging the reader's glasses in her review dated May 12, 2021. Haupt also compliments the story's personal-growth dimension, which assures that Alex and Poppy won't be able to completely join a mature relationship until they've resolved their concerns. This is a change from Ephron's film, which places a greater emphasis on the evolving dynamic between Harry and Sally than on their personal development.

Henry described herself as a pragmatic romantic in an interview with Shondaland.com. Henry wants her characters to feel 100 percent real, and the scenarios they find themselves in are relatable rather than aspirational, despite drawing influence from classic romantic cliches.

The book has received mixed reviews from readers: While Henry meant to create a meaningful story about human growth, readers like Haupt found the novel to be a relaxing 'beach read,' since it doesn't demand too much of the reader and is unabashedly fun.

Poppy Wright and Alex Nilsen, who met at the University of Chicago, evolve from indifferent acquaintances to closest friends to loving partners over 12 years in People We Meet on Vacation.

Poppy, 30, has realized her ambition of becoming a well-known travel writer based in New York, but she has been miserable since her two-year separation from her closest friend Alex following a fatal incident on their Summer Trip to Croatia. The narrative is split into two timelines, one focusing on what happened to 30-year-old Poppy and Alex after Poppy's discovery and subsequent trip to Palm Springs, and the other on their previous trips.

Poppy and Alex had been going on the Summer Trip every year since they met at the University of Chicago and formed an unusual relationship. Even though they are opposed—Alex is a tall, serious honors student, while Poppy is a small, adventurous college dropout—they discover that they understand each other like no one else.