Coming Home: Brittney Griner Speaks Her Truth
thegavoice.comBrittney Griner says she thought about killing herself during the first few weeks she spent in a Russian jail, during her grueling 10-month wrongful detention in Russia in 2022.
Now, 17 months after her release, Griner’s still recovering from the trauma; her healing includes mental health support from a therapist.
In a new memoir, “Coming Home,” released May 7, the WNBA All Star and two-time Olympic Gold medalist details how she navigated the punishing Russian penal system and how her life as a Black queer woman and the discrimination that entails had perhaps given her some resilience to face the arduousness of that ordeal.
Griner also writes at length about her life, coming out, her career, her family and her wife Cherelle, who fought for her release.
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