Coming Home

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Coming Home
by Brittney Griner

ISBN: 9780593801345
Hardcover, new

Brief Description:
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold
medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia
and her journey home. “Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of
Griner’s time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a deeply
personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened—what is still
happening—to her body and mind.” —Slate On February 17, 2022, Brittney
Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the
Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of
previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her
gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one
gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently
upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until
now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her
sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and
isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and
sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman
ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied
for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor
Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf
of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes
readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months.
And yet Coming Home is more than Brittney’s journey from captivity to
freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her
deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years,
anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family’s support pulled
her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and
neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of
survival and a testament to love—the bonds that brought Brittney home to
her family, and at last, to herself.