The beauty of Rulfo's prose, marked by his quiet tone and exquisite use of Spanish, was refreshing to Limón in contrast to the verbose and elaborate prose of other Spanish-language writers she had studied; Rulfo came to serve as one of the key models for her creative writing.
Although her grandparents on both sides died before her birth, Limón had a large extended family of uncles, aunts, and cousins. The massive repatriations to Mexico of the 1930s split the family up, with many of Limón's relatives on her mother's side relocating to Guadalajara. She remembers her mother taking her to visit the family there many times throughout her childhood. This connection to Guadalajara is particularly important to her novel The Day of the Moon (1999), in which she traces an incident in her own family history: one of her forebears of the 1880s had his wife committed to the insane asylum in Zapopan, near Guadalajara, to punish her for her marital infidelity. Limón visited Zapopan in 1994 to reconstruct this family history. An archivist there showed her photographs of the asylum as it appeared in the late nineteenth century, which inspired the key visual images of the institution that she develops in the novel.
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