Heart's Altitude

He got everything he worked for. He's starting to suspect the work required leaving behind the only person who wanted him unimproved.

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Tobi's ascent is, by every visible measure, a success story — the promotion, the relocation, the version of himself he'd been building since secondary school. Heart's Altitude is about the cost column success stories don't itemize: specifically, Nkem, who loved him at every altitude and is increasingly unwelcome at this one.

The novel tracks a single year in which Tobi's ambition and his capacity for loyalty run in genuinely opposite directions, refusing the comforting idea that a person can have both if they just manage their time better. Nkem isn't a symbol of what he's losing — she's a full person making her own decisions about how much of this she's willing to absorb.

There's no scene where Tobi chooses love over ambition, or ambition over love, in some grand reckoning. Instead, the book tracks the hundred small choices that add up to an answer he never consciously made — which is, the novel suggests, how most people actually decide.