Brittney Griner Writing Book On Russian Detainment

Brittney Griner is able to open up about her harrowing time spent in captivity inside a Russian penal colony.

The 32-year-old, 8x WNBA All-Star has inked a take care of writer Alfred A. Knopf to write down a still-untitled memoir which they are saying will take a deep dive into Griner’s almost one-year keep in a Moscow-area penal colony.

“For the first time Griner recounts the tumultuous events of 2022 that both reshaped her life and captured the world’s attention: Griner’s arrest at the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on February 17, followed by her detention, trial, and imprisonment in Russia,” Knopf says in regards to the e book, slated to be launched mid-next 12 months.

After all, Griner, arrested and charged for bringing vape cartridges into the nation, was finally discovered responsible on the drug cost, and sentenced to 9 years behind bars. However, after months of negotiation, the U.S. agreed to a prisoner change, sending again infamous arms vendor Viktor Bout for BG’s launch.

Knopf, writer behind Andre Agassi‘s bio, Open, says Griner will focus on every little thing from being arrested to happening trial “in vivid detail.” She can even write about her “surreal time living in a foreign prison and the terrifying aspects of day-to-day life in a women’s penal colony.”

“I arrived in Moscow to rejoin the UMMC Ekaterinburg basketball team and was immediately detained at the airport. That day was the beginning of an unfathomable period in my life which only now am I ready to share,” Griner says of the venture.

Brittney continued … “After an extremely difficult 10 months in detainment, I’m grateful to have been rescued and to be house. Readers will hear my story and perceive why I’m so grateful for the outpouring of assist from folks the world over.”

Along with the memoir, which can mark the primary time Griner has talked about her harrowing expertise in-depth, there will likely be a companion kids’s e book launched sooner or later.