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“To say that the practice of palliative care comes to vivid life in Sunita Puri’s pages may seem like a bad choice of words. But her memoir about tending to seriously, often incurably, sick people pulls off that feat. Puri the doctor knows that masterful control isn’t the point. For Puri the writer, her prose proves that it is.”
—The Atlantic

“A profound exploration of what it means for all of us to live—and to die—with dignity and purpose.”
—People (Book of the Week) 

“Puri writes about how palliative care specialists are working to change medicine from within—teaching other doctors how to talk to patients about their hopes and fears, not just their disease and treatment.”
—NPR

“It will save your life when you need to learn to accept death.”
—The Asian Age

That Good Night will inspire you to recognize and respond to suffering with compassion. Whether caring for patients on your own or with the support of a palliative care team, fluency in the language of suffering will help you preserve compassion in medicine.”
—Oncology Times

“Sunita Puri’s luminous, lyrical memoir is a literary introduction to the work of palliative care…Her stories, combined with her sense that we’re guided by a benevolent force beyond comprehension, point toward love’s power and life’s fragility.”
—The Christian Century

“An impressive debut . . . Puri does the hard work of bringing humanity to medicine. Her commitment to normalizing conversations about death, and telling stories about what quality-of-life and dying-with-dignity can mean for patients in their last moments, makes this book a must-read for healthcare professionals everywhere.”
—India Today

About the Book
Interweaving evocative stories of Puri’s family and the patients she cares for, That Good Night is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well, arming readers with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us.