From Here to the Great Unknown

A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

Narrated by: Riley Keough, Julia Roberts

#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.

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.

©2024 Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (P)2024 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“Instead of tap dancing around the hard parts, we’re drilling into the bedrock. We hear less from Presley and more from Keough, who comes across as level headed, valiant and kind. . . . Keough approaches the episode with respectful levity, the best tool available to members of a dysfunctional family. . . . Presley still gets a word in here and there, and these passages show how determined she was to stand up to her demons.”—The New York Times

“When her actor daughter, Riley Keough, writes that she wants Lisa Marie to emerge from the pages of the memoir as a ‘three-dimensional character’, she’s not kidding . . . it’s clear that Presley was nothing if not radically honest. It’s also striking how Keough seems to almost plead with the reader to understand and love her mother as much as she does. Ultimately, this is a book built on grief: Lisa Marie Presley’s for her father and son, but also a daughter’s for her mother.”—The Guardian

“The book is of two minds: It’s an unadorned, conversational memoir that’s more matter of fact than gossipy, little interested in preserving what her father’s biographer Peter Guralnick once called ‘the dreary bondage of myth.’ And it’s a frank, almost unbearably heavy meditation on grief. . . . Stunningly candid . . . Both women write gracefully about the unbearable, immovable heaviness of grief. Keough’s portrait of her mother in her final months is especially indelible. ‘I had mistakenly thought she was so strong-minded that nothing could ever truly hobble her,’ she writes. ‘But of course it could. Enough pain can hobble anyone.’”—The Washington Post

Wow

I’ve loved Elvis my entire life, I loved Lisa and was so sad for her children when she passed… But Riley did an amazing thing bringing this book to life. Thank you.

A broken heart

This memoir is a verbal picture of a little girl’s broken heart and how the trauma of it followed her the rest of her natural life. Riley Keough does a wonderful job telling her mother and family’s story.

💔Heartbreaking tribute to love💔

This book unveils Riley Keough's gift for storytelling via a captivating, heart wrenching, insightful journey. The writing feels so honest. Raw yet reverent. Observational yet revealing. Keough interweaves her perspective, filling in gaps and fleshing out details in the story Lisa Marie Presley left in her hands. I didn't have many thoughts or opinions about Presley, Keough, or their family before this book. But now, after reading, I'm touched and in admiration of the deep, true, unwavering love Presley gave and created among her children.

Riley Keough, you hoped that through this book, your mother would resolve into a three-dimensional character. Did she ever, and then some. A story well told. 🙏🙏🙏Thank you for your work.

What an incredible gift Riley has given her mother

Growing up Gen X, I always rooted for Lisa Marie. I could never fathom what it was like growing up in the intense media spotlight.

Now - because of Riley - we get to hear it, in Lisa’s words. In all her complexity, Lisa was even more interesting than we could imagine.

Determined, talented and so incredibly relatable. Riley helped show her mother’s vulnerability.

Also, the choice to have Riley interject her own memories is brilliant. Her love for her mother is clear. I genuinely hope she has (or finds) the happiness that seemed to elude Lisa.

The snippets of Lisa telling her own story were glorious. I hope one day Riley will release the unedited tapes. Let us hear more of Lisa story in her own voice.

Grateful to have spent the last day listening. Such a great story.

Beautifully Heartbreaking Story

Love, love, loved this book.
I laughed. I cried (several times). Lisa Marie Presley was a beautifully complicated and compelling person - in her own right. Separate from her famous father (who I’ve always loved). This story beautifully reveals the fierce yet delicate woman behind the famous name. She was an incredible mother, and this world seems changed now somehow without her in it. Julia’s narration as Lisa Marie was great. It’s Riley’s narration though, telling all of the stories of their life together….her thoughts and feelings about her mother and her brother Ben Ben - that will reach inside you and rip your heart right out of you. Yes, her story is tragic, but also so full of meaning and good times, great memories - reminds us all to cherish every moment. The good and the bad. It makes us who we are. I will carry this story with me for years to come.

the preforming I loved the narrations it made it easy to follow who's point of view

it was very interesting and I couldn't stop listening to it. This gives so much insight into her life and how her trauma affected her.

Raw and Real

This was an amazing book. I absolutely loved it. It is so raw and real. You can feel the love and sadness she experienced in this book and also see her dad in a light like never before.

Hearing about it in her voice and In her daughters voice. There was a lot I did not know.

I love the different voices and think it really added a lot to do the audio version

Her relationship with her father

I loved the book. I was surprised how terrible Priscilla was to her though.

There were things that I didn't know.

This book is so well written and Lisa's daughter Riley did a good job of telling her mother's story. Julia Robert's did a good narrating it. The thing that surprised me the most is that Lisa Marie never got over her dad's passing. I knew that August 16, 1977 is a date Lisa would remember forever and would have to deal with it. But I thought overtime she would learn to how deal with it better. I hope Lisa is at peace. This book is beautiful!