Book cover titled "Just a Little Buzzed" with an abstract portrait of a woman's face and the author's name, Taira Soo, on a pink background.

what if your life

led sideways?

not in circles. not off course.

somewhere you didn’t expect —

maybe exactly where you were meant to land.

Just a Little Buzzed

A Memoir by Taira Soo

about the book

Just a Little Buzzed is a memoir about the in-between moments — when you’re no longer who you were and not yet who you’re becoming.

It’s not a survival story.

It’s a reclamation.

No tidy chapters. No neat lessons tied in bows — just a life, jagged, tender, beautiful.

Told the way it actually unfolds — disjointed, surprising, a little out of breath.

A woman with short black hair, smiling, wearing a black top with colorful lines and small gold earrings.

about the author

Taira works at the intersection of dance, design, and storytelling — and refuses to choose just one. She’s drawn to fractured timelines, unfinished edges, and the kind of details you only catch when you’re paying odd attention. She writes the way she talks — sideways, trusting every detour to land exactly where it should.

Off the page, she brings a dancer’s discipline and a designer’s eye to helping brands and artists find their voice. She keeps a list of sentences she wishes she’d written, and leaves one thing imperfect on purpose. She is the founder of split & type, a story studio for nonlinear narratives and unconventional voices. Just a Little Buzzed is her first book — part confession, part detour map.

about split & type

split & type is the creative imprint behind Just a Little Buzzed — and the starting point for stories that resist tidy endings. It’s a home for winding narratives, sharp turns, and voices that make their own rules.

Built for work that lingers in your head long after the last page, split & type exists for the stories that won’t let go.

where to buy

Order Just a Little Buzzed online or directly from the publisher.

stocked at select indie bookstores

Book Soup — Los Angeles

Village Well — Culver City

Sunny’s Bookshop — Tarzana

Browser Books — San Francisco

Trident Booksellers — Boston

Malaprop’s Bookstore — Asheville, NC

Novel — Memphis, TN

Available through major online booksellers worldwide.