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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.
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780593733899
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780593733899
- File size: 11493 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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May 1, 2024
Not much is known yet about Presley's memoir other than it is based on her own efforts to pen her story before her death in 2023 and hours of recordings she left behind. Her daughter, actor Riley Keough (Daisy Jones & the Six), worked with the material to produce this book. Prepub Alert.
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Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Starred review from December 1, 2024
Sharing a mother's life and essence in an openhearted, unmediated way. The title of this book is a lyric from "Where No One Stands Alone," one of the songs Lisa Marie Presley recorded as a duet with archival tapes of her father, Elvis Presley. Now her daughter, Riley Keough, has done something similar, using material that her mother recorded in the last years of her life, before her death at 54 in 2023. Transcribing and editing the tapes, Keough adds commentary and fills in the blanks, noting in a preface that her mother "was constitutionally incapable of hiding anything from me." The two voices are printed in different fonts in the book, which works well. Lisa Marie shares powerful memories of her father, who died when she was nine, from wild times in golf carts at Graceland to the day his lifeless body was carried away. Her teenage years were shaped by the hands-off approach of her mother, Priscilla Presley, who dropped her at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre to be taken care of. She shares interesting details of her relationships with husbands Danny Keough, Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage, and Michael Lockwood. The story of her and Jackson falling in love, bonding over the wildly abnormal lives they share, reveals a side to the man rarely seen. The toll taken by the suicide of Keough's younger brother Ben in 2020 is expressed by both authors; from then on, Lisa Marie's own death was something of a foregone conclusion. If his mother felt that, both by nature and by nurture, "Ben didn't stand a fucking chance," then she was equally cursed: "I guess I didn't really have a shot in hell." A moving portrait of a life lived on the further reaches of the bizarre planet of American celebrity.COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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