In “This Quintessence of Dust,” Marshall Moore chronicles a young man’s sojourn on Cheung Chau, the suicide capital of Hong Kong, a visit that doesn’t end well. Sadness and desperation, on the other hand, are in ready supply. The police are conspicuously absent apart from a brief cameo in Charles Philipp Martin’s “Ticket Home,” the one true caper tale. Very few of these stories document actual crimes. Ng and Blumberg-Kason defy the fates by presenting a collection of 14 stories-by Chinese tradition, an ominous number-illustrating their city’s dark side.
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