THAT GOOD NIGHT Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

After Sunita Puri reads her author's note in a warm, thoughtful tone, Soneela Nankani narrates the remainder of this audiobook with reverence for the author's spiritual and humane perspectives. The daughter of an Indian physician, Sunita Puri also went into medicine but found that its focus on the mechanics of saving lives did not address the quality-of-life choices that people faced when confronting catastrophic or terminal illness. In a work that is part memoir, part spiritual exploration, she describes how she began seeing such life-changing illnesses as spiritual and social challenges--a process she could help patients with by eliciting their preferences and facilitating spiritual considerations. In addition to her pleasing tone and interpretive clarity, Nankani performs with flawless fidelity to the underlying truths in this extraordinary work. T.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2019]