{"product_id":"what-is-missing-9781250758026","title":"What Is Missing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wise and necessary book, one I've been recommending ardently to everyone I know. --Julie Orringer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flight Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuspenseful and gripping, award-winning author Michael Frank's \u003ci\u003eWhat is Missing\u003c\/i\u003e is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman they both love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCostanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old, and, soon afterward, his father, Henry Weissman, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in--as it happens--reproductive medicine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence--of a child, a parent, a partner, or a clear sense of identity--\u003ci\u003eWhat is Missing\u003c\/i\u003e offers Costanza, Andrew, and Henry the opportunity to make themselves whole when the triangle resumes three months later in New York, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father, a son, and--for Costanza--a potential mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250758026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.51w x 0.72d","brand":"Michael Frank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38024352956597,"sku":"9781250758026","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1e82b21b-0377-436d-8400-8aa2eb0786e6.jpg?v=1609187091","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/what-is-missing-9781250758026","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}