A Review of From Here to the Great Unknown
I had to take a couple days to process after I finished reading this book. This book is raw and emotional. While reading I had to pause a little after reading about Lisa Marie’s experience of losing her dad. That was hard for me to read after losing my own dad not to long ago.
I found myself relating a lot to Lisa Marie reading her words on her feelings of loss and not feeling like yourself is important and the lower self esteem feelings. I had also had a great loss when I was young. The loss of my grandpa that I still carry the weight of that loss. So I related to her and her grief.
I found this book to be raw and emotional. I think that Riley did a great job with finishing this project for her mom after her death. I like how the different voices of Lisa Marie and Riley were in different font styles. The writing is so good that you can feel the emotions just rolling off of the pages.The pictures is a really nice touch to the book.
From Here to the Great Unknown is available in eBook, Hardback, Paperback and Audiobook.
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.
Author: Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough
Title: From Here to the Great Unknown
Published On: 10/8/2024
Publisher: Random House Pages: 304
Genres: Autobiography, Memoir
Narrator: Riley Keough, Julia Roberts
Audiobook Length: 5 hours and 42 Minutes
Format: Audiobook, eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
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SYNOPSIS
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.
From Here to the Great Unknown is a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir (2024) and a Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Memoir (2024). The book is available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Apple Books.