Babycakes (Tales of the City #4) (1984)

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by Armistead Maupin


Armistead Maupin seems unable to make a plot work without relying on the most outrageous coincidences and chance meetings. 

Armistead Maupin

So why do I enjoy this series so much? 


I think it’s because he so successfully communicates his love for his characters to me, so that I am actually looking forward to each unexpected encounter and unforeseeable event that turns everyone’s lives upside down.


 Maybe Maupin’s style of story construction is a natural outgrowth of developing as a writer in the gay subculture of San Francisco. 


San Francisco is a large city that probably often felt like a small community, so why shouldn’t the rest of the world be that way, too?


 Wouldn’t it be nice if it were?


"28 Barbary Lane" (Italian)

"Babycakes" (French)

"Tolliver's Travels" (German)

"Rusk with Mice" (Dutch)

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