From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club
A Memoir
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4.4 • 656 Ratings
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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. This memoir will give you a memorable look at an incredibly compelling human being.
Customer Reviews
See AllGreat storytelling.
Overall a great read. A lot was told about Lisa Marie’s life from her perspective and her daughters. You get a glimpse into her life along with the ups and downs.
While the overall book is fairly short I wanted to know more. I would have loved more behind the scenes stuff.
Definitely worth the read!
such an emotional book
written with such passion and feeling. I loved it. beautifully written.
Lisa Marie Presley RIP
Even though she was born to celebrity parents, life was so unjust for her. Having lost her Father at a young age, and trying to feel loved and protected and then losing her beloved son, tragically. A shattered life, repressed by obscured media attention, she deserved so much more from life.