Economic pressures and class dynamics are brought to bear on the young characters in new novels by Stephanie Jimenez (They Could Have Named Her Anything) and Sarah Elaine Smith (Marilou is Everywhere). As these adolescent women come of age, how do these forces bubble beneath friendships and evolutions of self-identity?

• Moderator: Ramona Reeves
• Book Signing: 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Texas Monthly TBF Book Signing Tent, Congress Avenue

Stephanie Jimenez, Sarah Elaine Smith, They Could Have Named Her Anything, Marilou is Everywhere