Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist,
was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband,
a wealthy man of high caste. Pran lived a life of luxury just
downriver from the Taj Mahal. At fifteen the news of his true
parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into
the street—a pariah and an outcast. Thus begins an extraordinary,
near mythical, and often hilarious journey of a young man who must
invent himself to survive—not once, but many times.