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From Here to the Great Unknown

By: Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough
Narrated by: Riley Keough, Julia Roberts
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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.

©2024 Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (P)2024 Random House Audio
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“Instead of tap dancing around the hard parts, we’re drilling into the bedrock. We hear less from Presley and more from Keough, who comes across as level headed, valiant and kind. . . . Keough approaches the episode with respectful levity, the best tool available to members of a dysfunctional family. . . . Presley still gets a word in here and there, and these passages show how determined she was to stand up to her demons.”The New York Times


“When her actor daughter, Riley Keough, writes that she wants Lisa Marie to emerge from the pages of the memoir as a ‘three-dimensional character’, she’s not kidding . . . it’s clear that Presley was nothing if not radically honest. It’s also striking how Keough seems to almost plead with the reader to understand and love her mother as much as she does. Ultimately, this is a book built on grief: Lisa Marie Presley’s for her father and son, but also a daughter’s for her mother.”The Guardian

“The book is of two minds: It’s an unadorned, conversational memoir that’s more matter of fact than gossipy, little interested in preserving what her father’s biographer Peter Guralnick once called ‘the dreary bondage of myth.’ And it’s a frank, almost unbearably heavy meditation on grief. . . . Stunningly candid . . . Both women write gracefully about the unbearable, immovable heaviness of grief. Keough’s portrait of her mother in her final months is especially indelible. ‘I had mistakenly thought she was so strong-minded that nothing could ever truly hobble her,’ she writes. ‘But of course it could. Enough pain can hobble anyone.’”The Washington Post

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Beautiful sadness

The loving way Riley spoke about her mother was truly inspiring. The memories and vivid details spoken with care and feeling. Hearing Lisa speak, for me was somehow reassuring as if she was speaking directly to me. Her life has so much meaning and I wish she would've found the answers she was looking for. She is loved and missed everyday. Lisa Marie Presley was so much more than her last name. She was a lot of things to a lot of people. I hope you're finally at peace now my friend.

I wish the book was much longer with more of Lisa's voice. Riley did an incredible job telling her mother's story. Thank you Riley for giving your mom her voice back, to have us connect to her though you.

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Tragically Beautiful & Beautifully Tragic

Riley Keough has done a wonderful job on finishing her mother's story- a story that is filled with both loss and joy, heartbreak and happiness, cruelty and kindness. You cannot sit down and read this for a happy ending; you can read this knowing that it is truth beautifully bared.

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Tragic and beautiful

The mix of readings is beautiful. Book is wonderful but the audible is even better.

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raw story

I'm not sure I believe everything in the book recalling her dad, she was so young & more credible adults have told the story of that day. However, it explains why Lisa looked so sad most times
I truly hope she's now at peace.

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Outstanding

Thank you for sharing a piece of your beautiful mom. This was a beautiful delicate journey of her mothers story intertwined with the daughter . The love Lisa Marie had for her children was her greatest purpose and you girls are the result of all of that love . The book was well written , narrated beautifully and so much truth that it helped me understand a lot about my own relationships . Listened to it during a massive hurricane in Florida , finished it and the sun had rose again . Kinda like life .

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Very well done

Thank you for sharing this book with the fans of Elvis and the Presley family. It was revealing and very well done.

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Absolutely heartbreaking, raw and beautiful

The boom is just amazing. It is such a raw, honest and very open account of Lisa Marie's, and Riley's lives. It was heartbreaking at times, and beautiful at others. I never would have expected so much transparency through her whole life experience. It's amazing she survived it all as long as she did. Definitely worth the read/listen!

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Beautiful, raw, sad, inspiring..

Hard lives are worth the struggle once you’re done with them. Experiences and love are the reasons for this life

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What a lovely lovely read.

I loved everything about this book. Thank you Riley for sharing this with me. What a beautiful soul

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Amazing.

Enjoyed everything about this book. What a beautiful story about love, plain and simple. It was heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. I actually liked listening to Riley more than Julie, her voice is melodic and soothing. Lisa was such an interesting person with a life unlike any other but still so relatable. So good. Going to go listen to some of her music now. Well done ladies.

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