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Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
Expected publication date: October 8, 2024
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.
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. - from Goodreads
I am not a big memoire person, but it's an interesting collaboration.
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DeleteNever was an Elvis fan but my mom loved him. I am interested in what this one might reveal. Thanks for sharing.
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DeleteI was on honeymoon with my first husband and sitting in the hotel dining room, when a waitress walked in crying, telling us that Elvis was dead... Being Elvis's daughter must have been very difficult - and such a collaboration must make this an emotional read.
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DeleteI don't read a lot of memoirs, but this does sound like it's an intriguing and emotional read!
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DeleteI love a good memoir. Will have to check this one out!
ReplyDeleteYay, hope you enjoy it!
DeleteI don't read a lot of nonfiction but this one has definitely caught my eye.
ReplyDeleteI have high hopes for this one!
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