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Season 39 · Episode 3
The Gas Station Attendant
0.01h 23mAugust 3, 2026
Director Karla Murthy weaves together home videos and recorded phone conversations from when her father, H.N. Shantha Murthy, worked at a gas station in Texas, tracing his journey from an impoverished Indian village to the United States. Murthy also reflects on her own identity as a first-generation American — her mother is from the Philippines — navigating adulthood and now motherhood.