Blurb from a JoCoNaut:

Fiction that is NOT Science Fiction: 14 hr audiobook

In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson’s mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she’s made enough money to support both Cecily and herself. But she never returns....

I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it

Content warnings include health scares, sexual abuse, alcoholism, racism, cruelty