The basketball star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir about her nearly 10 months behind bars in Russia, she said on Tuesday, adding that she hoped the book would help raise awareness about other Americans who had been wrongfully detained abroad.
Ms. Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury and one of the best basketball players in the world, was detained in Russia on Feb. 17, 2022, when the Russian authorities accused her of carrying hashish oil in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.
Ms. Griner said that day was the beginning of an “incredibly challenging” period, which she was only now ready to share.“Readers will hear my story and understand why I’m so thankful for the outpouring of support from people across the world,” she wrote in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.
In the memoir, Ms. Griner will describe “the terrifying aspects of day-to-day life in a women’s penal colony,” said a statement from Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher, and Penguin Random House, which will produce the audiobook. The book is expected to be released in the spring of 2024.
source MIIN