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Ferment - A Memoir of Mental Illness, Redemption, and Winemaking in the Mosel (Hardcover)
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Ferment - A Memoir of Mental Illness, Redemption, and Winemaking in the Mosel (Hardcover)
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A deeply moving account of one man's return to the German town
where he first pursued a career in winemaking, and his attempt to
reckon with the mental illness, alcoholism, and enduring
relationships that defined the most formative chapter of his life.
After an attempted suicide by hanging--with his son in the next
room--author Patrick Dobson checks into a mental hospital,
clueless, reeling from bone-crushing depression and tortuous,
racing thoughts. A long overdue diagnosis of manic depression
offers relief but brings his confused and eventful past into
question. To make sense of his suicide attempt and deal with his
past, he returns to Germany where, three decades earlier, he
arrived as twenty-two-year-old--lost, drunk, and in the throes of
untreated mental illness--in search of a new life and with dreams
of becoming a winemaker. The sublime Mosel vineyards and the
ancient city of Trier changed his life forever. Ferment charts his
days in Trier's vineyards and cellars, and the enduring friendships
that would define his life. A winemaker and his wife become like
parents to him. In their son, he finds a brother, whose death years
later sends Dobson into a suicidal tailspin. His friends, once
apprentices like himself, become leaders in their fields: an art
historian and church-restoration expert, an art- and
architectural-glass craftsman, a painter and photographer, and a
theologian/journalist. The relationships he builds with them become
hallmarks of a life well-lived. In Ferment, Dobson reconnects with
the people who stood by him through his dissolution and eventual
recovery. In these relationships, he seeks who he was and how his
time in Germany changed him. He peers into his memory to understand
how manic depression and alcoholism affected who he was then and
how his time in Germany made him who he's become.
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