Orlando, Florida is a paper town. Everything is so fake and flimsy. "Everyone is demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper frail. And all the people, too." Margo Roth Speigelman has lived here 18 years and has "never once in [her] life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters." She convinces her next door neighbor and one time best friend to accompany her on a late night revenge. She claims they "are going to right a lot of wrongs. And [they were] going to wrong some rights." And then she goes missing. Quentin Jacobsen and his friends Ben and Radar follow clues left by Margo to find her. "Maybe untold riches awaited he who found her." Using Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" to advance the plot, John Green has crafted a novel to rival any poem. There is some rough language and some inappropriate hi jinks, but the book's merit far outweigh these.
"Paper towns were created by cartographers to protect against copyright infringement."
"If you choose the Leaves of Grass metaphor, you're saying that we are all infinitely interconnected."
"Imagining someone else, or the world is something else, is the only way in."
"Forever is composed of nows."
"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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