From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
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4.3 • 76 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.
A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and grieved.
Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, laid in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran towards his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they shared in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother's wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.
To make her mother known.
This extraordinary book is composed of both Lisa Marie's and Riley's voice, a mother and daughter communicating across the transom of death as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other-the last words of the only child of a true legend.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s not every day that Julia Roberts narrates an audiobook. In fact, this is her first. But that’s only one part of what makes From Here to the Great Unknown so special. This is the incredible life story of Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley and a remarkable individual in her own right. Presley tragically passed away in 2023, so her actor daughter Riley Keough stepped in to complete the memoir and add her own perspective. As Presley recounts both her upbringing at Graceland and her storied marriages, we hear Roberts read Presley’s chapters while Keough voices her own contributions to the tandem memoir. We even get to hear Presley’s own voice in the form of selective recordings made for the memoir. All of those unusual factors ensure that this is one of the most unforgettable biographies in recent years.
Customer Reviews
Beautifully told
Keough is a wonderful, warm and natural story teller. She did her late Mother, grandfather and baby brother justice with this articulate and honest account of their lives.
From Here to the Great Unknown
Arrived here out of curiosity- no surprises - money, fame and life without purpose.
Don’t really need or care for it
It popped up into my library out of nowhere and I do not want it nor do I know what to do with it