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

Lisa Marie Presley · Riley Keough

Oct 2024 · Sold by Random House

About this ebook

#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.

Ratings and reviews

it's a brave beautiful human being world was on your mother's shoulders because she was an icons daughter and unfortunately a lot of a holes of reporters took advantage of when she would do interviews it was all about her dad for that they had a microscope on every little thing she did that's got to be tough your mental state has to be wrecked in a kind of way of saying it and I just wish you the times see what it's just literally when it just left her alone give her peace unfortunately to paparazzi is relentless they are horrible the things they do to get a picture they're so invasive and I just had to be a burden on rest in peace with Lisa Marie you are not forgotten Riley did a beautiful job of representing it's true humble woman that you represent in your own way in your own right thank you.

so touching g, so real. 8 have lost my 3 sisters, 8 felt and reacted like Riley. I was always the responsible take charge person.. But when Darlene died,, the first of my sisters,, i froze and couldn't do anything for a long time. when I lost my son, I can relate to what Lisa Marie felt and did and could not do. it was reading about myself. adter four years im still not sure I want to live. but this did help me look more towards life. thank you

Touching. I feel the same about my life with my father and the loss I felt when he past. I still hear him and talk to him.In my dreams he comes to me when I am at my lowest. Thank you

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.