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From Here to the Great Unknown

by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

Macmillan

Lisa Marie Presley was Elvis’s only child, the apple of his eye and this is her memoir.  Lisa Marie died tragically young but before she died she started work on her autobiography.  She asked her Hollywood actress daughter, Riley Keough (star of Daisy Jones and the Six), to help her write it and started recording her memories.  Earlier this year, despite her grief, Riley listened to the tapes from start to finish and got down to writing her world-famous mother’s memoir.  She’s also interjected her own memories so the memoir is written in the two voices – mother and daughter.

It’s a wild ride – from Lisa Marie’s unrestrained upbringing at Graceland, her marriages to Micheal Jackson and Nicolas Cage and her joy at being a mother but there’s great sadness too – Michael’s death, the death of her son, Ben, not to mention the death of her own father. As the Washington Post states: “Both women write gracefully about the unbearable, immovable
heaviness of grief.”  Its Oprah’s Book Club pick, it’s on the New York Times Bestseller list and it’s now out in South Africa.

“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

 

 

 

 

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