On Suits and Other Habits (Corporate Executives)‪.‬

TAMSIN TODD has published short stories in several literary journals and contributes book reviews to The Washington Post Book World. She is currently working on a novel about musicians. My father is an executive. He works for a multinational corporation, the kind with so many divisions and subdivisions and franchises and contracting units that if you marked them on a gigantic map of the world they would spread in pox-like clusters across all five continents. My father believes in his work. I have never heard him complain about it. He has worked for the same corporation for thirty years, passing from division to division like a man walking through an interminable train, never certain what kind of carriage lies beyond the next door. Thirty years: the span of a generation, the measure of youth.