Oprah’s Ebook Membership introduced the most recent choice, From Right here to the Nice Unknown (Random Home) a memoir from Lisa Marie Presley, who tells her complete story for the primary time on this uncooked, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully accomplished by her daughter, Riley Keough.
Oprah introduced her newest Ebook Membership choice on CBS Mornings, as she appeared in-studio with creator Riley Keough to debate the distinctive writing course of for this deeply private memoir. Watch the complete CBS Mornings section right here.
“I’ve nice love and admiration for Lisa Marie Presley, and was so moved that her daughter Riley, via her grief, was in a position to assist her end a fantastically touching memoir that permits us to see her mom at her most sincere and susceptible,” stated Oprah Winfrey. “That is an intimate take a look at what it was like rising up as inheritor to considered one of America’s most well-known households.”
“When Oprah referred to as to inform me that she was deciding on my mother’s memoir for her e-book membership, all I may take into consideration was how proud my mother would have been to know her story was going to be learn and mentioned with such empathy, thought and style,” stated Riley Keough. “She would have felt extremely susceptible, however profoundly grateful for the prospect to essentially attain individuals.”
In help of the memoir, Oprah Winfrey traveled to the historic Graceland Mansion in Memphis, TN, to take a seat down with Riley Keough, Elvis Presley’s first-born grandchild, for Riley’s first in-depth interview since her mom, Lisa Marie Presley, died unexpectedly in 2023, in an unique interview “An Oprah Particular: The Presleys — Elvis, Lisa Maria and Riley” which can air tonight on CBS at 8 pm/ET. Watch a clip of the interview right here.
Earlier than her loss of life, Lisa Marie had recorded hours and hours of tales, from her outstanding, one-of-a-kind life. These tapes — intimate and uncooked, painful and exquisite — had been to be the muse for a memoir she wished to jot down. A month earlier than she handed, she requested Riley to assist her just do that, to make it possible for her life story was shared with the world.
On this unique interview for the e-book, Riley shares what that writing course of was like and the tales and remembrances of her mom. The particular will characteristic never-before-seen household photographs and residential movies in addition to choices of Lisa Marie’s private audio recordings of her life, together with reminiscences of her father Elvis Presley — about whom Lisa Marie opens the e-book by writing: “I felt my father may change the climate. He was a god to me. A selected human being.”
After Lisa Marie handed, Riley obtained the tapes that her mom had recorded for the e-book, lay in her mattress, and listened as Lisa Marie instructed story after story about smashing golf carts collectively within the yards of Graceland, in regards to the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, simply the 2 of them.
About getting dragged screaming out of the toilet as she ran towards his physique on the ground. About residing in Los Angeles along with her mom, getting despatched to highschool after faculty, at all times kicked out, at all times in bother. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what that they had in widespread. About motherhood. About deep habit. About ever-present grief.
Riley knew she needed to fulfill her mom’s want to reveal these reminiscences, incandescent and painful, to the world. To make her mom — the passionate, joyful, caring, and complex lady that Riley cherished and now grieved — recognized. This extraordinary e-book is written in each Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voices, a mom and daughter speaking — from this world to the one past — as they attempt to heal one another. Profoundly transferring and deeply revealing, From Right here to the Nice Unknown is a e-book like no different — the final phrases of the one baby of an American icon.
The audiobook is now out there. Julia Roberts will narrate Lisa Marie’s sections within the audiobook alongside Riley Keough, who narrates her personal sections. As well as, the audiobook may also characteristic never-before-heard choices from the private tapes Presley recorded as she ready to jot down the e-book.
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Lisa Marie Presley was a singer and songwriter who was born in Memphis and raised at Graceland as the one baby of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. She launched three studio albums all through her music profession — To Whom It Could Concern, Now What, and Storm & Grace, the primary of which was licensed gold. Lisa Marie handed away in January 2023.
Riley Keough is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Impartial Spirit Award-nominated actress. She is understood for her work in Daisy Jones & the Six, Zola, and extra. She additionally co-directed Warfare Pony (2022), which received the Caméra d’Or for finest first characteristic at Cannes, and co-founded the manufacturing firm Felix Culpa with Gina Gammell. She is the eldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and sole trustee of Graceland.
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