'People We Meet on Vacation' & What Book-To-Screen Adaptations Owe Readers?

EPISODE · Feb 2, 2026 · 45 MIN

'People We Meet on Vacation' & What Book-To-Screen Adaptations Owe Readers?

from Booksmart · host Missing Perspectives

What do book-to-screen adaptations owe their readers? And further, what makes a good adaptation? Should the goal of any adaptation be to appease existing fandoms or attract new ones? These are the central questions that Sunny Adcock and Allie Daisy King set out to answer in today’s episode of Booksmart, using Emily Henry’s 'People We Meet on Vacation', recently released on Netflix, as their case study.

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