<P> Paper Towns takes place in and around a fictional subdivision , located in suburban Orlando , Florida , called `` Jefferson Park '' . The novel focuses on the narrator and protagonist Quentin `` Q '' Jacobsen and his neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman . As preadolescents , Quentin and Margo discover the corpse of a local man , Robert Joyner , who committed suicide in their neighborhood park after his divorce . Nine years after this incident , Quentin and Margo are senior pupils at Winter Park High School . One night , a month before their high school graduation , Margo appears at Quentin 's bedroom window . She has devised an eleven - part plan of vengeance on a group of people she feels have hurt her during her time at high school ; these people include Lacey , Jase , and Becca . Margo needs an accomplice and a car to help her complete the tasks , and tries to get Quentin to help her accomplish it . Quentin accepts , and after the plan is implemented , Margo and Quentin return to their homes around dawn . </P>
<P> Paper Towns takes place in and around a fictional subdivision , located in suburban Orlando , Florida , called `` Jefferson Park '' . The novel focuses on the narrator and protagonist Quentin `` Q '' Jacobsen and his neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman . As preadolescents , Quentin and Margo discover the corpse of a local man , Robert Joyner , who committed suicide in their neighborhood park after his divorce . Nine years after this incident , Quentin and Margo are senior pupils at Winter Park High School . One night , a month before their high school graduation , Margo appears at Quentin 's bedroom window . She has devised an eleven - part plan of vengeance on a group of people she feels have hurt her during her time at high school ; these people include Lacey , Jase , and Becca . Margo needs an accomplice and a car to help her complete the tasks , and tries to get Quentin to help her accomplish it . Quentin accepts , and after the plan is implemented , Margo and Quentin return to their homes around dawn . </P>
where does the book paper towns take place
where does the book paper towns take place
Orlando , Florida
Orlando , Florida