The Grapes of Wrath

Although John Steinbeck's son and grandaughter have lost the rights to the author's earliest works after the publishing company's appeal of a federal district court ruling, a man hospitalized at Tucson, Arizona University Medical Center is slowly regaining his faculties. NPR reports that a man given the name Adobe by hospital workers suffered a traumatic brain injury from a truck collapse. Over the past four months, Adobe has only been able to respond to questions for vital information with "Cindy, Cindy." The foreign national named as Adobe says that he misses his wife and children although his face and identity does not match the picture on the Mexican voters registration card he carried with him.