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Lyle, and especially his grandson, Leonard, the professional musician and music teacher whose slow decline into dementia eventually brought him to the Lucky Stroke, near Belinda and his ex-wife, Trudi. In these pieces, as Belinda later reflects, she's portraying them not at their best but at ... their most human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur memoirist's piquant reflections nourish all her stories as surely as sap does a tree. In the four sets of stories called\u003cem\u003e Belinda Reflects,\u003c\/em\u003e which alternate with sets labeled\u003cem\u003e Orphans\u003c\/em\u003e or\u003cem\u003e Weddings and Funerals,\u003c\/em\u003e the musings are more like rainfall or manna.\u003cem\u003e The Belinda Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e are rooted in Seidel's family history, factual enough to be a memoir though the names have been changed. 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