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Emily Henry · 2021 · road

Emily Henry's 2021 romance. Best friends Poppy and Alex, opposites in everything, take one summer trip together every year for a decade - from a road trip through the American Southwest to Tuscany, New Orleans, Nantucket and beyond. After a falling-out on a trip to Croatia, Poppy plans one last vacation to Palm Springs to win back the friendship, and maybe more.

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    Ohio

    The small Ohio hometown where wanderlust-struck Poppy and homebody Alex meet in college and begin their unlikely friendship and a decade of shared summer trips.

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    Tuscany

    One of the pair's far-flung annual vacations, wandering the Italian countryside - the kind of trip on which their friendship deepens and the unspoken feelings between them grow harder to ignore.

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    Croatia

    The Adriatic coast trip where everything between them finally goes wrong, ending two years of silence - the fracture Poppy is determined to repair.

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    Palm Springs

    The California desert resort where Poppy talks Alex into one last vacation, a final chance to mend the friendship and confront what they have always meant to each other.

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