Ah, “beach week”: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs’ latest herd of high school grads flocks to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauched celebration. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have never seen. They smuggle vodka in water bottles and horde prescription drugs by the dozen. Meanwhile, their misguided, affluent parents are too busy worrying about legal liabilities to fret over some missing pills or random hookups. For Jordan Adler and her family, though, this rite of passage threatens to become more than just frivolous fun. The teen’s parents, Leah and Charles, might not let their only child go at all. Their marriage is in shambles, their old house is languishing on the market, and the bills are stacking up. With all that stress, it soon seems they’re behaving as irresponsibly as their daughter and her friends. With the wit of Nora Ephron and the insight of Tom Perrotta, Susan Coll satirizes a new teenage rite of passage, in the process dismantling the lives of families in transition. Beach Week Ferrar, Straus, Giroux, $25) is a hilarious, well-observed look at the end of childhood and the human need to commemorate it—expensively. 6pm

POSTPONED: Please check our website for updates about the rescheduled date for Maria Elvira Salazar. This event is in Spanish: No importa cuál sea tu camino, cuáles sean tus sueños, ni cuántos obstáculos tengas que vencer, este libro es un conmovedor testimonio del triunfo de la fe sobre la maldad. En ocasiones la vida nos pone pruebas que parece imposible superar. Puede tratarse de una crisis personal, de un problema de salud o de la crisis financiera internacional. Tal vez hayas perdido tus ahorros o hasta tu casa, y tus sueños y planes parecen cancelarse para siempre. En esas ocaciones el camino se torna largo y cuesta arriba; sin embargo, si mantienes tu fe la solución puede llegar de manera inesperada. María Elvira Salazar vivió una de las peores crisis que uno pueda imaginar en medio de una historia de intriga, poder y envidia que involucró a la tristemente célebre Laura Bozzo, quien se presentaba en televisión internacional como una defensora de los pobres y los desvalidos, buscando escalar cada vez más los ratings, sin importar por encima de quién pasaba. Fue así como la periodista María Elvira Salazar vio de pronto su carreras irse a pique. Y ella discute ese en su libro Si Dios contigo quien contra ti? (Random House, $18.95). 8pm