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...jobs have a very structured way of hiring,” says Mason. “With Mohindra, it had a unique style of interviewing. From there, it took a couple months of courting, and that’s much less than a standardized process.” In Mason??s experience, comparing the international process with the domestic one was much like “comparing apples to oranges...
...Mason??s journey to his job has been an intrepid one. After leaving North America for the first time his freshman summer, Mason “caught the travel bug,” spending summers in South America, Asia, and a semester in Barcelona. “I loved it, and it’s just my personality and my curiosity for adventure. So when I started looking for jobs, this international component was definitely in my head,” he says. “I prioritized jobs that had international opportunities. I was applying to consulting...
...Mason??s stories are brief and flavorful. In a short introduction to the book, he presents his vignettes as recently discovered fragments containing alternative versions of “The Odyssey.” One story has Odysseus (here named “Mr. O.”) living in a sanatorium, where he spends his days trying to remember a distant war. Another has him as Agamemnon’s prized assassin, faced with the unfortunate order of killing himself. Sticking with the pretext of fragmentation, Mason never fully fleshes out the action in each tale...
...Odyssey” calls to mind the continual beginnings of Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” and the distorted views of Venice in “Invisible Cities” find their match in Mason??s ever-refracted portrait of Odysseus. Both authors leave the reader with the task of sorting through their sketches. Like Calvino, Mason trades in shadows...
...simple adaptation of a classic text. In his essay “Why Read the Classics?” Calvino once wrote, “A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much a sense of discovery as the first reading.” Mason??s reimagining takes such discovery to heart. He himself may be aware of the similarities between his and the Italian author’s work. Many of his plot twists recall Calvino’s own piece, “The Odysseys Within ‘The Odyssey...