Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic However sad you are expecting “From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir” will be, take heed: it’s sadder than that.
This new volume, started by Lisa Marie Presley before her 2022 death and completed recently by daughter Riley Keough, falls squarely into the realm of autobio-tragedy — bracingly looking at how depression and addiction issues repeat themselves generationally, with almost none of the sentimentalized overlay you might expect a book of this kind to impose. “I wondered how many times a heart can break,” Keough writes near the end.
As a reader, you may have already been keeping some kind of mental score. It’s a lot. But it’s not a slog: “From Here to the Great Unknown” is engrossing from start to finish.
The fact that it remains that constantly absorbing maybe comes against some odds, since the emotional trajectory of Lisa Marie’s life is never much in doubt… not when she writes, “The sadness started at 9 when he [Elvis Presley] died, and it never left,” and Riley confirms, “She was heartbroken my whole life.” But of course the book benefits from delivering the goods on a myriad of subjects any reader with a modicum of interest in celebrity has naturally wanted to know more about, from Elvis’ temperament to how Lisa Marie got along with Priscilla Presley (spoiler: rarely well) to her marriage to Michael Jackson, which merits a book unto itself.
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