pbA wise and necessary book, one I've been recommending ardently to everyone I know. --Julie Orringer, author of iThe Flight Portfolioi bbrbbbrbSuspenseful and gripping, award-winning author Michael Frank's iWhat is Missingi is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman they both love.bppCostanza 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.ppWith three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence--of a child, a parent, a partner, or a clear sense of identity--iWhat is Missingi offers Costanza, Andrew, and Henry the opportunity to