This photo provided by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shows the book jacket for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” by Margaret Atwood. Serafina Palandech, co-owner of Hip Chicks Farms, based in Sebastopol, Calif., ...

This photo provided by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shows the book jacket for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” by Margaret Atwood. Serafina Palandech, co-owner of Hip Chicks Farms, based in Sebastopol, Calif., says that the book has helped her recognize that her