What are the motifs in The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas?

The motif of passing things from one generation to the next is a relatively minor one in the context of the narrative as a whole, but it is none the less an important one. The first point to note here is that the practice includes the passing of "things" from not only one biological generation to another, but also one metaphorical generation to another. Examples of the former include the way Grover Bean's farm was, before the narrative begins, passed on to him and his brother by their father and how Tom breaks free of the life passed on to him by his father. Finally, there are Grover's hopes of what his adopted son has not inherited from his biological grandfather and mother. In other words, legacies go both ways, to the good and to the bad.