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From Here to the Great Unknown

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

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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What the critics say

“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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Thank you!!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Lisa’s life story. I’m so proud of her and have always loved her.. she was an amazing person. I was lucky enough to see her perform on stage…it was electric! Thank you Riley for finishing this for your Mama! xoxo

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The reality of what Lisa and her children have lived

Loved this Audiobook, Love Lisa…Love Riley.., Thank you Riley for your courage completing this Audiobook and book for your Mama ❤️

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SHOCKING

First I will say the book was a bit confusing at first because it’s hard to tell who is speaking when you hear the voice.
It’s also hard to believe that she let herself get that sick before asking for any help.!

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Touching

I was 5 years older than Lisa Marie and when I learned the sad news that Elvis died I was heart broken for Lisa. It really tore me up. I was always rooting for Lisa throughout her life. This book was an awesome read. I'm glad Lisa raised wonderful Children. I'm glad she had that closeness again since her dad. I was glad to hear she and M.J did have a good relationship for a time. It was great to learn of Lisa's fabulous first husband. I could sympathize and understand Lisa's feelings for keeping her son with her for those 2 months.
I was shocked that Precilla was hardly mentioned in the book. They must have been very distant.
Thank you for completing this book. You are a great daughter.

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Riley’s voice was hypnotic

An incredibly profound, beautiful and heartbreaking story about love, loss and family. Narration was done so well. Highly recommended.

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Riley’s words and voice for her mother

Having the Presley name doesn’t mean u r not human and will not experience all the lovely and difficulties of life it’s just compounded by the shadow of Elvis. A daddy’s girl losing her father a king of music a god to his daughter. You learn about Lisa Marie tumultuous life rebellious teenage spirit. How that made her fierce independent and strong but also stubborn and self destructive. You learn about her endless love for her children and navigating the endless curves life that ended all too short. Riley her eldest daughter took on completing this memoir of her mother’s life showing incredible empathy strength insight and comforting voice. Her voice is a gentle safe feeling knowing her mother’s legacy is in safe hands. After losing her brother and mother she shows incredible strength and resilience and like she said her grief which is a constant Ever evolving grief

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The beautiful storytelling in two perspectives was amazing.

This is my first review, this book, this telling of the lives of so many, was so heart wrenching and beautiful. The story of loss and how they grieved for those they loved. My heart broke many times and I full on ugly cried at the end.
This was so well done I can’t say enough good things.

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Thank you Lisa Marie and Riley.

Thank you for sharing this story.
I love hearing the recordings of Lisa Marie!
Julia Roberts was the perfect person to speak her part.

Great book! Thank you for opening my eyes to see life from your eyes and understand who Lisa Maria really was.
RIP Lisa Marie Presley.

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powerful and sad

immersive and loved the lilt in language. engaging and trivia filled, a reminder of the circus of celebrity. people arepeople

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The relationship between mom and daughter

Loved it all. Wonderful job writing this book! What a loss of a truly beautiful honest person!

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