Paper Towns (2008)
Paper Towns is a 2008 fiction book written by John Green.
A month before graduation, Quentin Jacobsen has his life mapped out and mildly boring, right down to the girl next door he has watched from a distance for years. Then Margo Roth Spiegelman climbs through his window one midnight, drafts him into a campaign of small revenges across Orlando, and vanishes by morning. Quentin reads her disappearance as a puzzle addressed to him, and with his friends Ben, Radar, and Lacey he chases a trail of clues out of Florida's subdivisions. John Green's 2008 novel sits with the gap between the person we imagine and the one who actually exists.
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A month before graduation, Quentin Jacobsen has his life mapped out and mildly boring, right down to the girl next door he has watched from a distance for years. Then Margo Roth Spiegelman climbs through his window one midnight, drafts him into a campaign of small revenges across Orlando, and vanishes by morning. Quentin reads her disappearance as a puzzle addressed to him, and with his friends Ben, Radar, and Lacey he chases a trail of clues out of Florida's subdivisions. John Green's 2008 novel sits with the gap between the person we imagine and the one who actually exists.
When was Paper Towns published?
Paper Towns was published in 2008.
Who made Paper Towns?
Paper Towns was written by John Green.
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The 2015 film adaptation carries the road-trip half well, with Nat Wolff as Quentin. For the same ache of chasing someone who may only exist in your head, the game Life Is Strange follows a teen unraveling a friend's disappearance in a small town, coming-of-age wrapped in mystery. The Perks of Being a Wallflower fits the tender high-school searching too.