Cheryl Strayed Essay Collection to Be Adapted for an HBO Series

By Maryann Yin 

Reese WitherspoonCheryl Strayed will join forces with Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern to create an adaptation of one of her books. They plan to develop an HBO drama series based on her essay collection, Tiny Beautiful Things.

According to Deadline, the pieces were “compiled from Strayed’s Dear Sugar advice column. Strayed and her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, will write the TV adaptation, set to explore love, loss, lust and life through the eyes of a Portland family who live by the mantra that the truth will never kill you.”

Vulture reports that this project would mark the collaborative reunion of Witherspoon, Dern, and Strayed. The trio had previously worked together on the 2014 film adaptation of Strayed’s best-selling memoir, Wild. (via The Wrap)