@luckyduck It's def not epic -- more magical realist in subject and style. For expansive epics I might recommend... Dhalgren, or The Bully of Order, or reading a whole pile of Louise Erdrich in chronological order, or Isabel Allende, or Salman Rushdie, or maybe Station Eleven (which is fantastic, but not vast) or The Country of Ice Cream Star, or A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. Or probably just about anything by Richard Powers.