South Asian in the Mid-South regards literacies to be constantly shifting and jostling, like the persons and cultures of the world. As the title indicates, Iswari P. Pandey looks at a specific group of people who live in the pseudonym-dubbed city of “Kingsville, USA.” The work “responds to calls… for a culturally situated study of literacy practices in actual use” (19). Through interviews with the citizens of Kingsville, Pandey considers how literacies are shaped by the forces of language, tradition, and identity.