Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed's collected advice columns, offering wisdom on life, love, and loss.
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From 2010 to 2012 the writer Cheryl Strayed wrote an anonymous online advice column called Dear Sugar at The Rumpus, answering letters from readers about grief, addiction, debt, parents, sex, and the long bad weeks.
Yes, in essay-collection form. Tiny Beautiful Things is Cheryl Strayed's collected Dear Sugar advice columns from The Rumpus, with extensive personal material woven into her replies. It was published in 2012.
Yes. Hulu released a series adaptation in 2023 starring Kathryn Hahn. The show fictionalizes Strayed's life around the Dear Sugar premise.
Tiny Beautiful Things was written by Cheryl Strayed, published in 2012 by Vintage.
Tiny Beautiful Things is 368 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Tiny Beautiful Things takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Tiny Beautiful Things is a standalone novel by Cheryl Strayed, not part of a series.
Tiny Beautiful Things is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.