books like the people we meet on vacation

We switch between their past vacations, how they build their friendship, how Poppy made “Naked Akex” rear his head while on vacation and how Alex made her feel safe and not lonely anymore. On a budget first and then on Poppy’s employer’s credit card as she is working for a travel magazine. And they’ll soon do things together on that summer, building an amazing friendship.įrom that moment on, they’ll go every year on vacation together. When at the end of their first college year they share a car together, the conversation will become really interesting with Poppy unable to stay silent, taunting Alex, pulling him out of his shell and talking so much.

Their first encounter was brief, when they visited college, two people who just talked because they happened to be next to each other. He wears khakis when Poppy looks like a boho. They are brash, weird and warm.Īlex is dutiful, always in control, old fashioned and used to take care of his little brothers and his depressed father since their mom died when he was very young. She has a loud family and parents who are real hoarder. Poppy is small, feisty, outspoken, funny, adventurous and…hurt from her high school years. One you take with someone who becomes your best friend, as improbable as it seems because you don’t make sense together. “Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.”

What could possibly go wrong?įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. 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.

Books like the people we meet on vacation