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From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough
30 reviews
kkopacetic's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol
kiwichill's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
kelly_e's review against another edition
5.0
Author: Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 5.00
Pub Date: October 8, 2024
T H R E E • W O R D S
Unprecedented • Remarkable • Transcendent
📖 S Y N O P S I S
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.
💭 T H O U G H T S
I wouldn't consider myself an Elvis connoisseur and cannot say I knew much about Lisa Marie's life either, yet when I saw several glowing reviews for From Here to the Great Unknown, the memoir she started but that would end up being completed by her daughter and published posthumously, I knew I wanted to listen to it.
This is very special audiobook, one unlike any other I've listened to before. The combination of their voices - Julia Roberts reading Lisa's parts, Riley narrating her own additions, and sound clips of Lisa herself - was incredible. It's heartbreaking to think it took her dying for this book to come together in the manner it has.
Lisa's story is so deeply moving, a story marked by extreme fame and overwhelming grief. It adds valuable insight into many aspects of her personal life - her complicated relationship with Priscilla, the effect her father's death had at such a young age, her short-lived marriage to Michael Jackson, her journey in motherhood, her struggles with opioid addiction, and the death of her son.
From Here to the Great Unknown reads like a conversation between mother and daughter both attempting to heal all that has come before. It is deeply personal with a lot of unpacking, yet I am so grateful Riley was able to finish what her mother started. By doing so, she has paid homage to her mother's story and brought to light some of Lisa's biggest strengths. Listening to it was an emotional journey, worth every moment.
📚 R E A D • I F • Y O U • L I K E
• celebrity memoirs
• themes of grief
• mother/daughter relationships
⚠️ CW: death, death of parent, child death, grief, suicide, mental illness, addiction, drug use, drug abuse, alcohol, alcoholism, toxic relationship, suicidal thoughts, child abuse, pedophilia, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, sexual assault, adult/minor relationship, pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, cursing, infidelity, medical content, pandemic/epidemic
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"This was a huge lesson for me—the only way out is through. You must allow pain in to free yourself from it."
"Grief settles. It's not something you overcome. It's something that you live with. You adapt to it. Nothing about you is who you were. Nothing about how or what I used to think is important. The truth is that I don't remember who I was."
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy
Minor: Cursing and Pandemic/Epidemic
actuallythemillennialdiaries's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
ashleighrbpayne's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicide
jane99salas's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent
meadown13's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent
Minor: Miscarriage and Panic attacks/disorders
taylorld's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
meghan_donaldson's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent
mivanashiveley's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug abuse and Suicide
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, and Death of parent