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A review by jager123
Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil
5.0
Over the years I’ve read Lloyd C Douglas’s novel the Robe many times. Maybe it was my love for that story that made me buy this book on a whim while scrolling through Booktopia.
But Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil has torn my heart from my chest several times. It is the story of the women who stayed by the side of Christ when all others had abandoned him. At the end of the chapters their names are written. The reader is given the names of the women who were left unnamed throughout the New Testament. Their stories are finally told. I admit I wept when the first name was given.
I am not religious in any way but found it to be a beautifully told story of female strength and a genuine attempt to return these women to their place, be it good or bad, in the story.
But Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil has torn my heart from my chest several times. It is the story of the women who stayed by the side of Christ when all others had abandoned him. At the end of the chapters their names are written. The reader is given the names of the women who were left unnamed throughout the New Testament. Their stories are finally told. I admit I wept when the first name was given.
I am not religious in any way but found it to be a beautifully told story of female strength and a genuine attempt to return these women to their place, be it good or bad, in the story.