In a cosmic twist of fate, the stars aligned to bring us a deeply personal glimpse into the life of Lisa Marie Presley—just as she was poised to finally share her truth. Imagine being an interstellar witness to the whirlwind of love, loss, and multi-dimensional complexities that defined not just a legend, but a daughter and mother too. In 2022, Lisa Marie beckoned her daughter, Riley, to help complete a memoir that had lingered in the universe like a comet caught in a gravitational pull. Tragically, mere weeks later, the world lost this vibrant spirit, leaving her story adrift in the cosmos, known only to a select few.
As Riley delves into the tapes that preserve her mother’s voice—recalling chaotic golf cart escapades at Graceland, the intimate bond with her father, and the shadows of addiction and grief—she embarks on a journey that’s part therapy, part eulogy. The poignant duality of their experiences unfolds in “From Here to the Great Unknown,” offering us a rare perspective on the fragility of life and the fierce love that binds us, even across the great beyond. We’ll witness a mother and daughter using the medium of words to bridge the celestial divide. Curious how the combined energies of these two remarkable women are captured in print? You’re in for an emotional ride.
Description: 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.
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