what if your life
led sideways?
A memoir about identity,
reinvention, and the in-between.
Not in circles. Not off course.
Just somewhere you never planned —
and somehow needed to go.
Just a Little Buzzed
by Taira Soo
Narrated by Taira Soo
Inside Just a Little Buzzed
Just a Little Buzzed is a memoir about the in-between —
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 neat lessons. No tidy bows.
Just a life: messy, nonlinear, and still becoming.
Told the way change actually unfolds —
jagged, tender, and a little out of breath.
About Taira
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 shaping stories, brands, and voices that leave a mark.
She is the founder of split & type, a creative imprint for nonlinear narratives and unconventional voices.
Just a Little Buzzed is her first book —
part confession, part detour map.
Where to Buy
Buy online or find Just a Little Buzzed at select independent bookstores.
Find it in stores
California
Book Soup — Los Angeles
Village Well — Culver City
The Last Bookstore — Studio City
Vroman’s — Pasadena
Browser Books — San Francisco
Utah
Weller Book Works — Salt Lake City
Massachusetts
Trident Booksellers & Café — Boston
North Carolina
Malaprop’s Bookstore — Asheville
Tennessee
Novel — Memphis
split & type
split & type is the creative imprint behind Just a Little Buzzed —
and the home for stories that resist tidy endings.
Built for winding narratives, sharp turns, and voices that make their own rules.
It exists for work that lingers long after the last line.
Off Script
A gathering guide for the conversations that start after the official one.