From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir (Unabridged)
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4.3 • 71 Ratings
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • 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.
A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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 now grieved.
Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay 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 toward 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 had 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 written in both Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voices, a mother and daughter communicating—from this world to the one beyond—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 an American icon.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
As the daughter of the almost mythical Elvis, Lisa Marie Presley was a subject of fascination for her tragically too-short life. In this incredible book, her daughter, actress Riley Keough (Daisy Jones & The Six), completes the memoir Lisa Marie hadn’t yet finished when she died suddenly in 2023. Offering an intimate look behind that mythical curtain, Lisa Marie is candid in all her reflections, talking about how her childhood memories of her late dad somehow still feel perfect and ideal, even as she looks back at them in her fifties. It’s also eye-opening to hear how well Keough understood her mom. She’s the one who reflects on just how similarly headstrong Lisa Marie was to her own mother, Keough’s grandmother Priscilla Presley. Riley is beautifully sincere as she narrates her sections, and superstar Julia Roberts interprets Lisa Marie’s reflections with a groundedness that truly does justice to such a memorable and compelling human being.
Customer Reviews
MWhat a precious gift she was. It breaks my heart that she didn’t know that.
I couldn’t put it down. It made me laugh. It made me cry…. It made me just want to hug and hold Lisa. 🩷. What a precious gift she was. It breaks my heart that she didn’t know that.
Very Interesting
Thank you Riley Keough for your courage to finish writing your mother's memoir and allowing readers to get a glimpse of what it was like growing up with a mother who devoted her llife to her children despite her own difficulties. Thank you Lisa Marie Presley for being authentic and real in telling your story in this memoir. May you rest in peace.
To potential buyers of this audiobook: buy it and listen for yourselves. As you listen to this audiobook, do not be quick to judge but be open minded and listen.
The only two things I did not like were both the swearing and not using enough of Lisa Marie's audio tapes in the audiobook. Thank you
Beautiful and heartbreaking ….
I am only in chapter four and so far the deep understanding that is being revealed of Lisa Marie Presley has been done with such incredible compassion and true knowing that it is helping to tell the story of the love, loss and incredible grief that the daughter of Elvis had for her father and how his death proved to be devastating to every fibre of her spirit. It is comforting to know this truth is being shared by her daughter, Riley Keough, and it is her intention to be as accurate as possible as to who her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, truly was. As heartbreaking as this truth is so far, I look forward to learning more about Lisa Marie Presley and who she truly was. Thank you, what a beautiful telling so far.