artificial silk girl in god coins nineteen thirty two novel about a young woman who isn't too worried about her reputation eighteen year old doris works as a typist but she wants to be a movie star and she isn't afraid to use her feminine wiles to get there but she doesn't want to sleep with just anyone when she turns down her own boss she finds herself out of a job. so she packs her stolen first coats and runs away to berlin city glittering with excitement but also full of cruelty and misadventures she takes a wealthy gangster as her lover later she moves in with another guy who's still hung up on his axe doris wants to find love but she's looking in all the wrong places. if you're human you have feelings if you're human you know what it means if you want someone and they don't want you it's like an electrified waiting period