The Hulu show "Tiny Beautiful Things," based on Cheryl Strayed's book and starring Kathryn Hahn, is a tearjerker. "I love to make people cry," Strayed said on "Salon Talks." "It's really one of my favorite things."
Strayed is an executive producer of the series in which Hahn plays 40-something Clare, a version of Strayed who has a similar past but never hiked the Pacific Coast Trail, aka the version of Strayed we got to know from her bestselling memoir "Wild" and the film starring Reese Witherspoon. Clare's life is messy and difficult. She hasn't written the great American novel like she'd hoped, her marriage is in trouble, her teenage daughter hates her, and no matter how long ago it happened, her mother is dead. Clare, like Strayed, is tapped to anonymously write the "Dear Sugar" advice column – which Strayed took over 11 years ago.
