Brief, haunting, lyrical, Alice Greenway's astonishing first novel revolves around two American girls in Hong Kong in 1967, their photojournalist father too busy in Vietnam to pay much attention and their mother a lost soul. Greenway, the daughter of a foreign corespondent who grew up in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Jerusalem, renders perfectly the backdrop and turmoil of China and the region in the 1960s.  (HKG31, $15.00)