Signifying Nothing by Clifford Thompson
By Phyllis Rhodes • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010The novel is set in Washington, D.C., in 1979 and focuses on the Hobbs family. Lester Hobbs, nineteen years old, is mentally retarded and mute until the day he suddenly begins to rap at the top of his lungs about life with his parents and older siblings.













