She recounted life during that time in her stories La mareas vuelven de noche and Don Junvencio (which remained unpublished until 1971).

In 1937 she married a lawyer, Óscar Barahona Streber, who was involved with the Costa Rican communist movement.

She left the hospital to travel to Mexico City, to stay in the house of Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio.

Oreamuno draws on narrative techniques that were uncommon in other Costa Rican writers.

It is believed that authors like Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust influenced her literary creation.

Costa Rican critic Abelardo Bonilla wrote that "In this as in all works of Yolanda Oreamuno there is boldness of conception and form, but there is a lack of internal unity".