From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir
#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.
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.
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Community Reviews
I had really been looking forward to reading From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley, but I felt a little letdown afterwards. Lisa Marie’s story is truly heartbreaking, one of the saddest true books I’ve ever read. Being a huge Elvis fan, I’ve read quite a few books about him and Priscilla. I found it interesting that there were some fairly important contradictions between this and Priscilla’s book. I also found it a bit perplexing that Julia Robert’s narrated the Lisa Marie portions of the book. That felt confusing to me. I loved that Riley Keough finished this memoir for her mother. She comes across as a very solid person. I appreciated her portions of the book the most.
I found this memoir to be very moving. Not just because it is Lisa Marie's point of view and her life as a separate entity to her father but because this was her life long wish and her daughter carried the project forward. I choose the audiobook, where Lisa Marie is narrated by Julia Roberts. I love it because it also had real Lisa Marie soundbites. There were moments where I felt maybe the tidbits she shared weren't hers to reveal but the rest of it, shared her and her sentiments so well, I appreciated. Go in with an open mind and open heart.
I listened to this book on Audible. I have never been fascinated with Elvis Presley or his celebrity daughter Lisa Marie Presley, but I loved this book. Riley Keough, Lisa Marie’s daughter, narrates the story of her mother’s troubled, yet extraordinary life. The audio book is narrated by Julia Roberts and Riley Keough with audio clips from Lisa Marie.
This book is an honest look inside Lisa Marie Presley’s life. It explains so much. I really enjoyed this book written partly by her daughter, Riley.
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