A man attends his ex-girlfriend's sister's wedding and can't swallow the fish served. A woman in New York loves two men—and loses both. A taxi driver falls in love with a German woman who can't stay.

These are stories about love in all its unfinished forms—the ones that almost happened, the ones that ended too soon, and the ones that leave you with nothing but a memory and an untouched plate of food.

Set in Nigeria, America, and across the world, The Fish I Couldn't Swallow is a collection of 10 stories about loving people who couldn't stay—and learning to be okay with that. Raw, tender, and deeply Nigerian, this collection speaks to anyone who has ever loved someone they couldn't keep.