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.
