what to read next that isn't pynchon

[David Morris]

I'm currently halfway through *Atmospheric Disturbances* by Rivka
Galchen.  Very well written, reminding me somewhat of Nabokov.  I
recommend it.

http://us.macmillan.com/atmosphericdisturbances#biography

Rivka Galchen recieved her MD from the Mount Sinai Shool of Medicine,
having spent a year in South America working on public health issues.
Galchen recently completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she
was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds
Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and
she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
Galchen lives in New York City. This is her first novel.

Synopsis:

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a
single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves
exactly like her—oralmost exactly like her—and even audaciously claims
to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo knows
better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that
the original Rema is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic
journey to reclaim his lost love.

With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey—who believes himself
to be a secret agent who can control the weather—Leo attempts to
unravel the mystery of the spousal switch. His investigation leads him
to the enigmatic guidance of the meteorologist Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, the
secret workings of the Royal Academy of Meteorology in their cosmic
conflict with the 49 Quantum Fathers, and the unwelcome conviction
that somehow he—or maybe his wife, or maybe even Harvey—lies at the
center of all these unfathomables. From the streets of New York to the
southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo's erratic quest becomes a test
of how far he is willing to take his struggle against the seemingly
uncontestable truth he knows in his heart to be false.

Atmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark
comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of
a fracturing mind. With tremendous compassion and dazzling literary
sophistication, Rivka Galchen investigates the moment of crisis when
you suddenly realize that the reality you insist upon is no longer one
you can accept, and the person you love has become merely the person
you live with. This highly inventive debut explores the mysterious
nature of human relationships, and how we spend our lives trying to
weather the storms of our own making.