Bestselling novelist and 2005 Pulitzer finalist Luis Alberto Urrea speaks as part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Series at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea has worked as a relief worker, film extra, columnist, editor, and professor of creative writing. In all, he has penned 17 books. His latest novel, The House of Broken Angels, is an intimate vignette of an American family struggling with the declining health of its patriarch. A book signing will follow.