From Here to the Great Unknown Oprah..., Lisa Marie Presley
From Here to the Great Unknown Oprah..., Lisa Marie Presley
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From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club
A Memoir

Bestseller

Author: Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

Narrator: Riley Keough, Julia Roberts

Unabridged: 5 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2024


Synopsis

#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.

About The Author

Lisa Marie Presley was a singer and songwriter who was born in Memphis and raised at Graceland as the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. She released three studio albums throughout her music career—To Whom It May Concern, Now What, and Storm & Grace, the first of which was certified gold. Lisa Marie passed away in January 2023. Riley Keough is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award–nominated actress. She is known for her work in Daisy Jones & the Six, Zola, and more. She also co-directed War Pony (2022), which won the Caméra d’Or for best first feature at Cannes, and cofounded the production company Felix Culpa with Gina Gammell. She is the eldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and sole trustee of Graceland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brady on November 14, 2024

My 100th book of the year! One of the best memoirs I’ve ever listened to. You get to hear actual audio recordings from Lisa Marie Presley and Julia Roberts narrates the other parts for her. Riley Keough also narrates a lot of it! Check TWs, this family has been through anything and everything you ca......more

Goodreads review by Allie on October 08, 2024

Listened to the entire audiobook at work today. Riley is what makes this book so special, she really honored her mother and family in such a beautiful way.......more

Goodreads review by *TUDOR^QUEEN* on October 11, 2024

I just finished this minutes ago and I'm very emotional right now. This was a very open and honest memoir, culled from actual tapes that were made by Lisa Marie Presley and augmented by her eldest daughter, Riley Keough. Lisa had been working on this memoir for years accumulating her story on audiot......more

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen on February 01, 2025

Talk about a jarring life. Wow. This was a rollercoaster of a ride. Written by Riley Keough and her mom, Lisa Marie Presley. One can easily see why LM was wild and untamed. She was her father’s daughter. She candidly tells about her life through a series of recordings she left before she tragically p......more

Goodreads review by Meike on January 29, 2025

Kudos to Riley Keough, who made sure that this book does exactly what memoirs are supposed to do plus added an multi-generational extra-level: After her mother Lisa Marie's passing, she completed her memoir by filling in gaps and commenting on her mother's thoughts and experiences in her own voice,......more


Quotes

“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