Writer and performer Genny Lim and Asian Improv aRts collaborating to create True Freedom: Anatomy of an American Family, a new short story manuscript that is informed by a writer?s residency at the Chinatown Beacon Center at Jean Parker Elementary School?the school Lim attended as a child. The project enables Lim to connect her coming of age experiences in the 1950s and ?60s Chinatown/North Beach neighborhoods to the issues facing the neighborhoods? immigrant children and families today.