Quest for Eternal Sunshine

A Holocaust Survivor's Journey from Darkness to Light

Non-Fiction - Inspirational
256 Pages
Reviewed on 04/12/2020
Buy on Amazon

This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email.

This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page.

This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Donation Program, which was created to help nonprofit and charitable organizations (schools, libraries, convalescent homes, soldier donation programs, etc.) by providing them with free books and to help authors garner more exposure for their work. This author is willing to donate free copies of their book in exchange for reviews (if circumstances allow) and the knowledge that their book is being read and enjoyed. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. Be sure to tell the author who you are, what organization you are with, how many books you need, how they will be used, and the number of reviews, if any, you would be able to provide.

    Book Review

Reviewed by Maria Victoria Beltran for Readers' Favorite

Quest for Eternal Sunshine: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey from Darkness to Light by Mendek Rubin and Myra Goodman is an inspiring memoir about the human will to survive. Mendek Rubin immigrated to America in 1946 at the age of 21. He had survived three years in Nazi slave labor concentration camps and had lost his parents and four siblings. Armed only with a sixth-grade education and not speaking one word of English, he had to rely on his brilliant and creative mind. Forty years later, his inventions revolutionized the jewelry and packaged salad industries. Even more impressive, he figured out creative methods to heal his emotional pain and achieved the ever-elusive peace of mind.

Myra Goodman's Quest For Eternal Sunshine is the story of a remarkable human being who survived one of the most horrendous events in human history, the Holocaust. What makes this story remarkable is that it is pieced together from his own unfinished manuscript that revealed his innermost thoughts. Unraveling in a little town in Poland called Jaworzno, it is a trip back to 1920s Europe where a prosperous Jewish family thrived and the little boy Mendek grows up in a loving family. World events will eventually turn his world upside down and his quest for eternal sunshine will begin. Myra Goodman writes without too much fanfare and the result is a story that truly inspires without trying hard to do so and this is what makes the book a remarkable read.