These abandoned subdivisions are pretty common in Florida. In the second part, “The Grass,” Q discovers a new meaning for “paper towns.” He learns that they can refer to subdivisions that were started and then abandoned–subdivisions that exist on paper but not (entirely) in real life. She’s doing a lot of things that night that he misreads, and this is one of them. But of course what Margo’s REALLY doing by using this phrase is giving Q a clue. In the first part, “The Strings,” Margo and Q use the phrase “paper town” to refer to Orlando, and Margo calls it a “paper town” because it’s flimsy and planned–from above, Orlando looks very much like a city that someone built out of origami or something. The phrase “Paper Towns” is used in three different ways in the three different parts of the novel. Queerweberian asked: Could you please go over the meaning of the title and it's relevance to the story?
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