People We Meet on Vacation is the epitome of a good beach read. It's been two years since they last talked, but maybe she can salvage their friendship? One thing is sure, she must confront her true feelings about Alex and in order to move on with her life, she needs to let him know how she feels. She reconnects with him and asks him to come on vacation with her. She is feeling down in the dumps and starts to wonder when was she last happy? Alex immediately comes to mind.

Her amazing job isn't so amazing after all. Or does she? After years go by they see other people and even take them on vacation together, but after one upsetting night, Alex and Poppy stop talking to one another. They take one trip together each summer and although Poppy feels herself getting close to him, she knows it's in a platonic way, because she would never want to risk the best friendship she has ever had. One thing they love to do together is travel. Alex is a high school English teacher in their hometown living a more suburban life. She has the dream job of traveling the world and writing about it. Fast forward many years of friendship and Poppy is in New York City as a travel writer. Poppy, on the other hand, is more outgoing, wears eccentric clothing, and can't wait to get out of her hometown. Opposites attract, right? Alex is more conservative, bookish, preppy, and is extremely good looking, but doesn't know it. Poppy and Alex met in college and while they are vastly different, they work well as best friends. 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.

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