In Paper Towns, Green creates fully drawn band geeks, intellectuals and gamers.

The question is: does she want to be found? And if not, will she still be alive when they find her? With the help of his friends, Radar and Ben, as well as Margo’s friend, Lacy, Q takes the reader on a road trip that is unexpected, full of heart, and laugh-out-loud funny. She has left a series of cryptic and clever clues that include Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, the use of capitalization, and a place called Agloe. If he wants to fulfill his fantasy, he’s got to find her. In the morning, Q drags himself to school, with hopes of exploring his new and improved relationship, but Margo has disappeared. Now on very different paths (Q is an uber-clever nerd, while Margo lives in the popular zone), she shows up at his bedroom window in the middle of the night for a funfilled night of revenge, thrills, and creative pranks. Quentin, aka Q, has been in love with the beautiful Margo Roth Spiegelman since the two of them discovered a dead body in the park of their Orlando subdivision when they were nine years old. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.” This is high school senior Quentin Jacobsen, the protagonist of John Green’s newest novel, Paper Towns. Though originally fictional and now long-gone, the town and its general store still show up on Google maps.“Margo always loved mysteries.

Now that the book has become a movie, that field and barn could get more than a few visitors. And that's certainly something that I never, ever imagined when I was writing the book.' 'Because people have started to go there again and to associate that field and that barn with the idea of Agloe. 'The strangest part of it to me is that this place that was imagined, and then real, and then disappeared, and then imagined again through my story - has kind of, in a way, become real again,' Green says. They, too, just found the field and the barn, and some of them would leave copies of his book there.

After Paper Towns was published, fans of Green's novel attempted their own pilgrimages to Agloe. When Green followed those maps while researching his book, all he found was a field and a barn where Agloe was supposed to be. Decades went by, and Agloe still showed up on paper maps. The fake town had become real, until the store eventually closed.

Paper towns by john green