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A Sunday Kind of Love:
A Football Romance
By David Benjamin
Trish is madly in love with her married boss. But the one he loves the most in the whole world is NFL quarterback Brett Favre. As Trish’s strange romantic triangle unfolds, she soars to the heights of victory, plunges into the agony of defeat and ends up forever changed.
Ranging from Lambeau Field and a Packer bar in Madison to the sandy wastes of Jackson County, A Sunday Kind of Love traces Trish through her initiation into the Green Bay Bay Packers’ lunatic fan family. Along the way, she discovers a wild panorama of sports fanatics and Heartland originals—barroom philosophers and football poets, tailgate therapists, surrogate moms and madcap cheeseheads.
AWARDS: NYC Big Book Awards, Best Romantic Comedy, 2019.
What they're saying
"A Sunday Kind of Love by David Benjamin is both satire and homage, a story of love intertwined with football, moral code, and Midwestern decency. Set in Madison, Wisconsin in 2009, the novel follows Trish Truschka, a mid-level bureaucrat who has a secret, decade-long fascination with her boss, Allen Andrews. Her problem isn’t just unrequited love; it’s that Allen is devoted to his wife, Priscilla, and perhaps more passionately, to Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre. Benjamin transforms this quirky premise into longing, absurdity, and misplaced loyalty. The affection Trish feels for Allen is genuine but distorted by fantasy. Through her eyes, Allen’s quirks, his compulsive paper-clip straightening, his talks about pets, and his opinions on draft picks become symbols of male authority, charm, and cluelessness. Benjamin’s writing thrives on that tension between idealization and reality.
The novel’s structure unfolds like a play in slow motion, shifting between bureaucratic banter and emotional revelation. Trish’s inner life is portrayed with empathy, even when her actions flirt with self-sabotage. Her eventual plan to disrupt Allen’s marriage, with help from her scheming friend Gary, sets off a series of events that test her sense of morality. Beneath the comedy, there’s an exploration of obsession and the blurry line between loyalty and delusion. A Sunday Kind of Love is humorous yet tender, blending satire with affection for its characters. The prose is full of observational humor: office routines, Midwestern politeness, and football fandom are portrayed with comic precision. Through Trish’s longing and Allen’s misguided hero worship, the story reveals the contradictions of human devotion. Readers seeking a masterfully written, witty, and unique character-driven novel will find much to admire in David Benjamin's work."
— Carol Thompson, Readers’ Favorite (5 stars)
A Sunday Kind of Love
(A football romance)
By David Benjamin
Price: $20
What they're saying
“A Sunday Kind of Love goes for it on fourth-and-long — and it’s a touchdown!”
— Gregg Easterbrook, author, The Game’s Not Over
“David Benjamin’s sports-savvy novel is a treat — a feast for the senses, an assault on your funnybone. It’s a rollercoaster ride of sex and football set in Wisconsin, a land of cheeses and sub-zero temperatures, where all transports of joy, and depths of despair—nay, the very measures of meaningful life — are linked inextricably to the fortunes of a bunch of burly thugs in green and gold called the Green Bay Packers. Its heroine, Trish, nurses a secret passion for her boss, Allen Andrews, the Deputy Director of the State of Wisconsin Bureau of Fallow Properties and Reclamation. He — alas — loves nothing in the world so much as the Packers, and their nutcase, on-again-off-again wunderkind quarterback, Brett Favre. Trish may be the only living soul in the state who knows nothing about football. To win her heart’s desire, she embarks on a crash course in Packerology that leads to one wonderful, rich complication after another. Read this book — even if you’re not from Wisconsin.”
— Jared Lubarsky, Professor of Literature, Josei University