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Coming Home by Britney Griner with Michelle Burford
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altamira16Britney Griner is 6'9". At the beginning of this book, she is rushing with her bags out the door to catch a plane to Russia to play basketball. She forgot some nearly empty vapes in her bag, and that leads to being incarcerated in Russia for nine months. Her passport is confiscated at the airport. She is moved to pretrial detention, and she has to return to court over and over until trial and sentencing.
Because she is such a tall person, nothing fits. Her legs hang off the end of the bed until they make a bed that is the correct size for her. The gulag uniforms don't fit until she has a seamstress who makes her a new one.
After reading this and To Build a Castle by Vladimir Bukovsky, I am pretty sure that to survive your time in a Russian gulag, you are just supposed to take up chain smoking. It is mandatory.
She lost nearly thirty pounds while in the gulag.
Her wife Cherelle, the WNBA, and others advocated for her release, and it was great to see the love of the community shine through. But in Russia, lesbianism seems to be treated like a mental disorder so everyone is incredulous that she has a wife.
Her wife was finishing law school and attempting to pass the bar exam while advocating for Griner's release.
I thought that this book was really well done, and the warmth of Griner and her community balanced out the part about being in a Russian gulag.
Because she is such a tall person, nothing fits. Her legs hang off the end of the bed until they make a bed that is the correct size for her. The gulag uniforms don't fit until she has a seamstress who makes her a new one.
After reading this and To Build a Castle by Vladimir Bukovsky, I am pretty sure that to survive your time in a Russian gulag, you are just supposed to take up chain smoking. It is mandatory.
She lost nearly thirty pounds while in the gulag.
Her wife Cherelle, the WNBA, and others advocated for her release, and it was great to see the love of the community shine through. But in Russia, lesbianism seems to be treated like a mental disorder so everyone is incredulous that she has a wife.
Her wife was finishing law school and attempting to pass the bar exam while advocating for Griner's release.
I thought that this book was really well done, and the warmth of Griner and her community balanced out the part about being in a Russian gulag.