Babycakes: Continuing Tales of the City

Author: Armistead Maupin

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there#39;s more to making a baby then 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, IBabycakes/I was the first work of fiction to acknowledge….Read More

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