Through a Long Absence: Words from My Father's WarsA 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver Winner for Biography Against the backdrop of World War II, Joy Passanante's touching new book, Through a Long Absence: Words from My Father's Wars, is the saga of a wartime medical unit, a passionate long distance love, the making of a surgeon, and two first generation American families. Told through her father's eyes drawing on hundreds of his letters to his beloved wife, his four volume wartime diary,