Contemporary American female writers

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< To my shame I have realised that I know next to nothing about contemporary 
 American female writers, let us say Vollmann, Wallace, Powers generation, so 
 J.C. Oates or Toni Morrison would not count. Are there female writers of 
 recent who could interest a Pynchon reader, or, in other words, more or less 
 'serious' reader? >>

She's Canadian, but Alice Munro is brilliant.  There's nothing in her writing 
to remind one of Pynchon, however, if you insist on that ...