Coming Home
Coming Home by Brittney Griner, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on May 7, 2024, is a 320-page account that delves into the author’s experiences during her detainment in Russia. This edition presents a raw and revelatory narrative, detailing the events surrounding her arrest for carrying medically prescribed hash oil and the subsequent challenges she faced within a foreign legal system. Griner shares her journey from captivity to freedom, providing insight into the emotional and physical turmoil she endured during this tumultuous period.
In Coming Home, readers will find a deeply personal memoir that not only recounts the harrowing details of her experience but also highlights the support she received from her loved ones. The book explores themes of resilience and love, illustrating how her relationship with her wife, Cherelle, and the encouragement from family and friends played crucial roles in her survival. Griner’s story serves as a powerful testament to the bonds that helped her navigate a geopolitical crisis and ultimately return home.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • 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.
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