The Gas Station Attendant

As a young boy, H. N. Shantha Murthy ran away from home to escape the extreme poverty of his Indian village. He travelled the country in search of work, dreaming that one day his life would change. It did, following a serendipitous encounter with a couple visiting India from Houston,Texas. But life in the States was not the American Dream he imagined. The Gas Station Attendant is an intimate love letter – a meditation on a complicated father-daughter relationship and a poignant tribute to the immigrant working class.