From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club - Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club

By Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

  • Release Date: 2024-10-08
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 151 Ratings

Description

NATIONAL 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.
 
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.

Reviews

  • A very good read

    5
    By Ashatchem
    So painfully beautiful. I was born in the 80’s and Elvis was long gone. I came across a book called “Elvis and Me” as a kid and it sparked my interest in Elvis as a kid, finally going to Graceland in 2022. Reading from the perspective of LM and her daughter was very intriguing and you could feel the love throughout the book. I pray she is at peace with her son and dad. I also hope her daughters keep her memory alive- this book definitely does her justice. Life is full of twist and turns and how brave of Lisa to share her highest of highs and lowest of lows. 🫶🏽
  • Humanizes the Presley Family

    5
    By moneycominoutthemouth
    You can tell the love and care that was put into the book by Riley. The ending is just magical and it’s almost like the presleys that have gone too soon and wrapping you in a big hug🥹
  • Must read

    5
    By erikadortega
    Amazing book, so moving in a way I never thought it could be.
  • A TRUE story

    5
    By SanyaLily1980
    A glimpse into the life of rock’n’roll royalty. Her words at times are chilling but so comforting at the same time. The love she had for her family was fierce and unwavering. She like her father was force not to be reckoned with.
  • From Here to the Great Unknown

    5
    By Wanda K McD
    I devoured this book. Poor Lisa Marie…my heart hurts for her. The book is very well written, and you can just hear Lisa Marie saying the words she taped so this book could be written. She was such a spitfire, so much like her beloved daddy Elvis. She had the highest highs and the lowest lows, and it seems everything in between. God bless you, Riley, for making sure this got to Elvis and Lisa Marie fans. Fly high, you beautiful souls. You are much loved and missed every single day. ❤️

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