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Coming home / Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford ; adapted by Tonya Abari.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Bright Matter Books, [2026]Description: 310 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9798217027033
Other title:
  • Coming home : adapted for young adults [Spine title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796.323/092 23
Contents:
Before -- Hostage -- Lockdown -- Show trial -- Labor camp -- Home.
Summary: "Brittney [Griner] shares [her] harrowing story of courage and strength, while recalling her teenage years where she found meaning and empowerment in sports, and overcoming her own struggles with her sexual identity. Her principles of fortitude and courage are ever evident as she goes on to recount her feelings of isolation while navigating a foreign legal system, her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony, the . . . prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, and her . . . rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of other detained Americans"--Amazon.
Item type: Book List(s) this item appears in: New Non-Fiction | Biographies & Memoirs
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library BIOGRAPHY 921/GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500061901

"Based on 'Coming Home', copyright 2024 by Brittney Griner"--T.p. verso.

Before -- Hostage -- Lockdown -- Show trial -- Labor camp -- Home.

School Library Journal starred, January 2026

Kirkus Review, January 2026

"Brittney [Griner] shares [her] harrowing story of courage and strength, while recalling her teenage years where she found meaning and empowerment in sports, and overcoming her own struggles with her sexual identity. Her principles of fortitude and courage are ever evident as she goes on to recount her feelings of isolation while navigating a foreign legal system, her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony, the . . . prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, and her . . . rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of other detained Americans"--Amazon.

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