Coming Home

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• From the nine-time WNBA all-star andtwo-time Olympic gold medallist Brittney Griner - a raw, revelatory account ofher unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.

On 17 February 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend theWNBA off-season playing for the Russian women’s basketball team for which shehad been the centrepiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a securitycheckpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenlycarrying less than one gram of medically prescribed cannabis oil. Brittney’sworld was violently upended, a crisis she has never spoken in detail aboutpublicly - until now.

In Coming Home, Brittney sharesthe harrowing full story of her sudden arrest days before Russia invadedUkraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal systemduring her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as thefirst American woman ever to be detailed at the IK-2 prison camp, while the#WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap forRussian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to globalspokesperson on behalf of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail,Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanningten months.

And yet Coming Home is more thanBrittney’s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as itis poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheartand wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how herfamily’s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of lettersfrom friends and neighbours lent her the resolve to keep fighting. ComingHome is both a story of survival and a testament to love - thebonds that brought Brittney home to her family and, at last, to herself.