People We Meet on Vacation by Emily HenryMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Many thanks to MaryAlice BD & Janet for recommending this read for my Albright College Zoom friends! After reading some heavy historical fiction and nonfiction history, they were ready for a lighter read and this book was good on many levels. Poppy and Alex meet on the first day of college and since this book is from Poppy's viewpoint, it was a fail (Alex was from her hometown, wears khaki pants and too tightly wound for Poppy's personality). After sharing a ride home things change and Poppy and Alex become the best of friends through college and after. Each year they vacation together and it is during this time, they begin to hide things and not be honest with one another. But that is not totally true because as the book goes from the present - This Summer- and each vacation year---the reader knows Poppy has major issues with her hometown, settling down, and Alex. Whereas the reader knows thruout the book that Alex is steady in his goals- fall in love, get married, have kids and teach in his hometown. It is how Emily Henry weaves this story that captured me; I could not stop turning the pages as I hoped they would both get it together and appreciate one another. Henry says that her books are about family and love and this reader so enjoyed the redemptive ending but also leaving open choices--now will those choices work or not, I am very very hopeful!
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