![]() It's about how well we know ourselves, and to what extent we can ever truly know another person. It can also mean a copyright trap on a map - as Quentin finds out. The book's title, paper towns, refers an American term for suburbs planned but not built. But Q thinks she's left him clues in a marked-up volume of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and he's determined to find her, no matter what the cost. ![]() ![]() ![]() Margo has run away before, several times, and her parents have simply had enough. until she fails to turn up for school the next day. Why she chose Q to be her partner is a mystery, but he hopes it will lead to something more. Let down by a cheating boyfriend, she takes Q on a night of revenge, as they play pranks on everyone that let her down. ![]() Q languishes in the middle ranks with his band member mates, Radar, who's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia), and Ben, who wants a girlfriend more than anything, but lacks the status to get one.Īnd then, one night, Margo knocks at Q's window. It's an unrequited love though - neighbours and childhood friends they may be, but their respective places in the High School pecking order are miles apart. Witty, sharply-observed, quotable and cerebral, it's one for the clever, introspective teen, who will love it.ġ7-year-old Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with Margo Roth Spiegelmen ever since he can remember. Summary: Flawed but fabulous leftfield story about identity and connections. ![]()
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