Peter in Progress by Andy Barrow
$32.99
Brief Description
After losing his job during COVID and moving into his mother’s basement, Peter Hughes discovers a gay online fitness program that changes far more than his body. Funny, heartfelt, and sexy, Peter in Progress follows one late bloomer’s chaotic journey through coming out, hookups, dating, friendship, and self-acceptance in post-pandemic New York.
Description
Peter in Progress
by Andy Barrow
Paperback | ISBN: 9798901741276
Coming out in your thirties was never part of Peter Hughes’s plan. Neither was living in his mother’s basement during a global pandemic.
When COVID leaves Peter unemployed, isolated, and painfully adrift, his life feels stalled in every possible way. Stuck in a cycle of anxiety, self-doubt, and late-night doomscrolling, the former almost-adult finds himself questioning how everything unraveled so completely.
Then he discovers Ryan’s Fabulous Fitness.
Part online workout program, part thirst trap, and entirely impossible to ignore, the gay-forward fitness channel unexpectedly becomes the catalyst for a complete personal reckoning. As Peter begins transforming his body, he also starts confronting truths about his sexuality that he has spent years quietly avoiding.
Emerging from lockdown newly out and wildly inexperienced, Peter throws himself into queer life with chaotic enthusiasm. Suddenly there are dating apps, awkward hookups, underwear parties, gym culture, flirtation, heartbreak, and the dizzying emotional turbulence of New York’s gay dating scene. Every step forward feels thrilling, terrifying, and slightly overdue.
Complicating matters further are the two men pulling Peter in opposite emotional directions: his dependable longtime college roommate and the magnetic fitness coach whose online charisma helped crack open Peter’s carefully buried identity. As attraction, friendship, and romantic tension collide, Peter discovers that coming out is not a single revelation but an ongoing process of figuring out who he wants to become.
Funny, sexy, heartfelt, and refreshingly honest, Peter in Progress is a contemporary queer coming-of-age story about late blooming, self-acceptance, body image, chosen family, and the messy joy of starting over when life refuses to follow the timeline you expected.
Perfect for readers who love queer romantic comedies, emotionally grounded LGBTQ+ fiction, and stories about personal reinvention, Peter in Progress captures the awkward beauty of becoming yourself at any age.
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