SPOON: A NOVEL Fulcrum Publishing Hardcover: October 2009, ISBN 978-1-55591-689-3 Winner of the Colorado Book award for literary fiction and a Denver Post Bestseller! A novel of the contemporary American West, Spoon tells the story of Arcus Witherspoon, a mysterious half-black, half-Indian, oddly clairvoyant man searching the West for his roots. Hitchhiking near Hardin, Montana, Spoon falls in with a ranching family struggling to keep their ranch afl oat amidst the pressures of hard economic times and an encroaching coal company. Proving himself a gifted ranch hand and mentor, Spoon charges himself with rescuing the Darleys and guiding the family's teenage son TJ on his path to manhood. While Spoon's checkered past includes a prison stint and a navy tour of Vietnam, it is his tenacity, wisdom, and charm that end up defining this quintessential Western man. BUY THE eBOOK Amazon Kindle Barnes & Noble Nook BUY THE BOOK IndieBound Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Interview with Robert on Colorado Public Radio (July 2010) Read an interview with Robert here (summer 2009)   PRAISE Finalist for a Spur Award The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union has awarded Spoon the Media of the Year Award for 2010! "Vividly presents the realities of life on a cattle ranch. Larry Watson's Montana 1948 comes to mind as a readalike."    —Library Journal "With Spoon, Robert Greer tells the story of a modern-day range war in wildfire prose both taut and lyrical."    —Craig Johnson, author of Another Man's Moccasins and The Dark Horse "An enormously engaging novel with characters who feel like old friends and a spirit as big as the West. From the opening paragraphs, you are in the hands of a master with the ability to evoke the grandeur of the still untamed western landscape and the folks whose lives are shaped by it. What a gifted storyteller Robert Greer is! Spoon is the kind of story you will remember."    —Margaret Coel, author of The Silent Spirit "From start to finish, the reader is completely swept up in the Darleys' and Spoon's stories. An excellent book that perfectly illustrates Greer's talent as a storyteller and writer."    —Bookbitch.com