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From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

Genre:
Nonfiction, Memoir, Nonfiction Music, Biography/Autobiography

Publication Date:
October 8, 2024

Page Numbers:
304

Read/Finished Date:
September 29th, 2025

Rating:
DNF'ed @ 30%

Premise:

Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2024), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Memoir (2024)
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 grieved.

Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, laid 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 towards 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 shared 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.

Review:

While this would have been a fascinating book on the life of Lisa Marie, it was also boring to the point I struggled to get past thirty percent of the novel. The fonts for both Lisa and her daughter often confused me, as they were nearly identical and Lisa Marie comes across as a spoiled, entitled brat throughout it. I just couldn't find it within myself to finish the novel.

I did hear the audiobook is better and maybe one day I will listen to it.