Does anyone know of a recent literary novel (not fantasy or sci fi or any other 'genre' novel) that is (1) based on the heroic quest and (2) has a female hero? I might not be using the right keywords, but I have not been able to find any. Female heroes abound, especially in movies and comics, who are simply men in women's bodies. Disturbing. I find a number of books by feminist scholars talking about women heroes and the quest myth, and perhaps I will have to buy some to find out what books they cite as examples, but I hate slogging through anything scholarly.