Botica

The intimate childhood memories of the writer interwave with an ancestral medicine interwave with an ancestral medicine guide exposing the Latin American colonial wound. Botica is the first non-fiction book by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, the celebrated Afro-Esmeraldeña autho. Her works, have been translated to German, Portuguese, Italian and English.

Botica was first published online in www.recodo.sh, and then published in physical format by recodo press in 2021 and 2023 in Quito, Ecuador

recodo press & terminal ediciones
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Quito, Ecuador
April 2024
ISBN: 978-9942-45-583-3

150 copies printed in risography on Flourescent Pink & Emerald Green

Translation: Ana Carolina Benalcázar, Juan Felipe Paredes, Galo Pérez & Carolina Velasco
Edition of the translation: Jesse Ruddock & Georgia Philips-Amos
Design: Jaime & Santiago Nuñez del Arco
Binding: Gissela Ximena Charfuelán Angara
Editorial coordination: Ana Carolina Benalcázar, Jaime Nuñez del Arco & Galo Pérez