About 32 Beach Productions:

a first person account by founder and author James Abro

In 2006, I rented a home in Ocean Grove New Jersey from Gloria DeRouen (pictured below), during which time I wrote a novel/memoir called A Summer in Time (to be published shortly on this website).

Afterwards, Gloria and I became friends and together we’d host small get-togethers and larger parties. As many of our mutual friends were artists, musicians and eccentrics, the gatherings and parties would often turn into impromptu performance events, with people sharing what they’d created in prose, performance or song.

We began to schedule these events and call them 32 Beach Productions.

Hence the name of this website as well as its intention: to inspire and foster creative virtual impromptu sharing among expressive people.

32 Beach is an actual place, a 150-year-old petite Victorian manse located just a block away from the rollicking Atlantic Ocean. Since its inception in the 19th Century, the small beachfront town of Ocean Grove has been a refuge for people seeking spiritual respite, and intent on pursuing alternative lifestyles as well as endeavoring in fresh artistic expressions and eccentric pastimes.

So far, the website is only offering works done by me:

• A mystical biography about a young man who came to America from India in 1960 with virtually no financial resources and ended up becoming the impresario of the largest and most successful yoga and holistic health center in the world - An American Yoga: The Kripalu Story
• A quartet of novels that range in themes from what it was like to grow up at the time of the ‘race riots’ in America (Baby!), to a satire of our present convoluted and failing financial system, (New Millennium Jitters).
• And my latest work, and closest to my heart; part memoir, part guide for caregivers: An Almost Unbearable Heartache.

Bien venue!