Babycakes

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This article is about the Armistead Maupin book. For the song by UK garage trio 3 of a Kind, see Baby Cakes.

Babycakes
First edition cover
Author	Armistead Maupin
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Tales of the City
Genre	Novel
Published	1984 (Harper & Row)
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	220 pp
ISBN	0-06-091099-2
Preceded by	Further Tales of the City
Followed by	Significant Others

Babycakes (1984) is the fourth book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Babycakes is often cited as the first work of fiction to address the AIDS pandemic.^{[citation needed]}

Plot elements

The novel begins in 1983, with the revelation of Jon Fielding's death from AIDS. His lover Michael must cope with it - and the new "problems" arising from his sex-related behaviour. All is not bleak, but it certainly marks the end of the free love and decadence era of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.

After being absent from Further Tales of the City, the character of Mona Ramsey returns to the Tales series in this book. Mona, now 37 years of age, is living and working in Seattle, Washington, the supposed "San Francisco of the 1980s."

v t e Works by Armistead Maupin

Tales of the City novels	Tales of the City More Tales of the City Further Tales of the City Babycakes Significant Others Sure of You Michael Tolliver Lives Mary Ann in Autumn The Days of Anna Madrigal

Other novels	Maybe the Moon The Night Listener

Screenplays	The Night Listener

Film and television adaptations	Tales of the City More Tales of the City Further Tales of the City The Night Listener

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