Armistead Maupin 
Babycakes 

Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the Cityseries, Armistead Maupins best-selling San Francisco saga.When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover theres 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, Babycakeswas the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.