num_pages: 336
description: Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityThe fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.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. 
language: English
title: Babycakes
titlecomplete: Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)
characters: Michael Tolliver, Mona Ramsey, Mary Ann Singleton, Anna  Madrigal, Brian Hawkins
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Queer, LGBT, Gay Fiction, Humor, Novels, Contemporary, Gay
ratings_count: 10834
places: California, San Francisco, California, London, England
series: Tales of the City
publisher: Perennial