Draw­ing on his own expe­ri­ences tour­ing with the likes of Hot Lit­tle Rock­et, nov­el­ist Andrew Wed­der­burn’s The Crash Palace finds rest­less char­ac­ter Audrey Cole dri­ving a van full of aging rock­ers through the bars of B.C. and Alber­ta as a young woman who even­tu­al­ly takes a mid­night dri­ve in a ​“bor­rowed” car as a slight­ly old­er mom. Wed­der­burn is appear­ing as part of the Win­nipeg Inter­na­tion­al Writer’s Fes­ti­val.