The Trip to Bountiful – Review by Ben Bustillo ©
Prohibited its reproduction I have to admit without shame or fear that it brought tears to my eyes. This is a story that lives in many of us regardless of the color of our skin, nationality or the language you speak. It is about a soul, a love, a house that could have been placed in any corner of any small town around the globe, with the same ingredients of remembrance, nostalgia and a very special place on a sacred altar of our memories. Let’s begin with the author, Horton Foote. As many writers as prolific as he was, he choose not only his hometown (Wharton, Texas) as the setup of the imaginary town Bountiful, but he also used the story of one of his aunts who had been forbidden to marry one of her first cousins combining it with a little bit of his imagination. A story that has been told in many languages and that has touched all races and ethnicities everywhere. Foote wanted to continue to live after his passing through his writings, and The Trip to Bountiful ...