Names of the girls via Jeet Thayil evaluation — forgotten girls of the bible

Jeet Thayil is conventional for his Bombay Trilogy of novels about drug subcultures and debauched poets in up to date India — the first of which, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2012. His fourth novel, a feminist tackle the Gospels, carries its own elevator pitch: "The risen Christ looked first to Mary of Magdala... it became the girls who have been the primary leaders of the Church. here's the booklet of the martyrdom of Jesus, and this is the booklet of the girls who travelled with him." Thayil's narrator observes that "the names of the ladies don't seem to be spoken, or spoken too hardly. Most often they are forgotten or suppressed or erased." The theory is appealing, if a bit muddled: a number of of