ISBN: 0062112570 9780062112576

Category: Fiction / LGBTQ+ / General

Page count: 336

<p>"Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on." —New York Times Book Review</p><p>The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.</p><p>When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.</p>