LIC author publishes YA novel, fulfilling lifelong goal
When Long Island City author
Jordyn Taylor was a
child, she was an avid reader
of history books — more
specifically, books written
about World War II and
the Nazi resistance. Taylor
recalled when her parents temporarily
banned her from checking out historical
reading material from the library because
she’d get nightmares. She inevitably
became sad and scared about the
tragedies that occurred.
“I’ve always loved history my whole
life, and being Jewish, I’ve always been
interested in the fight against Nazis. I
was so into reading about this time period
as a kid and continued studying it
in college,” Taylor said.
Taylor’s fascination with the era and
the rebellion that came with it was the
seed of her debut YA book, “The Paper
Girl of Paris,” a work of historical
fiction. The novel weaves together two
stories: that of a young girl named Alice
in modern-day Paris, and the story
of her great-aunt, who was part of the
resistance in Nazi-occupied France.
Taylor had a passion for writing long
before she was published. According
to the author, in her seventh-grade
yearbook, “We all had to write our
goal in life, and mine was ‘to write a
full book.’”
“The Paper Girl of Paris” unfolds as
the main character, Alice, finds out
she inherited a secret apartment in
Paris from her recently deceased
grandmother. The apartment serves
as a time capsule into Alice’s grandmother’s
life and France during
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