When an old friend pays her a surprise visit, he basically drops the anonymous advice column “Dear Sugar” on her, which he was writing pretending to be a woman. She’s forced to work in admissions at a retirement community to make a living. On top of everything, her writing career is in the toilet, too. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of their dysfunctional relationship.Ĭlare’s connection with Rae is just as messy and turbulent, balancing on a love/hate dynamic that often brings out the worst out in each other. The latest source of their confrontation is that Clare gave away the entire college fund of their daughter Rae (Tanzyn Crawford) to her troubled brother Lucas (Owen Painter) without telling Danny. Her second marriage to Danny (Quentin Plair) is in shambles and the two are in couple’s therapy. We follow Clare (Hahn) as her life slowly falls apart around her.
It’s not as extensive and deep-diving, but still able to land a punch due to its potent source material and a relatable lead performance by Kathryn Hahn.
It took longer for Tiny Beautiful Things to find its way to the screen as a miniseries on Disney+, which feels like both a pre-and-afterthought of Wild. It was published only a few months after her memoir (although she had written the essays before the book), and the intersections of her life are pretty obvious. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, a collection of essays initially written anonymously by Strayed in a weekly column, is like a little sister to Wild. Strayed’s book found astronomical success and was even made into a hit movie starring Reese Witherspoon in 2014. If you haven’t read or at least heard about Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 bestseller memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by now - in which she talks about her heroin addiction, infidelity, and the loss of her mother that nearly destroyed her - you might as well live on the Moon.
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