Young and confident Darly Lane's life is rocked by the Marvelous Mavens-five vibrant older women in her Boston University PhD study. Darly's hypothesis that the Women's Liberation Movement fixed everything is upended by the Mavens, who reveal a deeper female truth. They hold nothing back as they school Darly during their wine-fueled dinner meetings. It's cathartic for the Mavens, but their candor threatens to crush Darly. If being a...