The Least of It

Opening one late spring morning in Mexico City, at Casa Barragán, the former home and studio of the Mexican architect, Luis Barragán, The Least of It tells the seemingly placid tale of a man, an unnamed American translator, who is reunited with his longtime friend, a New York psychiatrist, after years of estrangement. At the heart of their disaffection is his friend's ex-wife, Simin, a brilliant, headstrong, and beautiful woman with whom the narrator has always been in love, a love that ha...