In Shome Dasgupta' s latest poetry collection, generational threads weave rich Acadian and East Indian tapestries. Crossing cultures and continents, Cajun South Brown Folk sings across " espresso sunrises" and the " kindred of skin" shared beneath them. Dripping with memory and steeped in history and place, these formally diverse poems take heart in the strength that builds through a multitude of tongues and homes still ever rooted in the search for light and love through connections between Bengali and Cajun ways of life.