A day in the life of Travis and Anne doesn't begin and end, giving way to a new day. No. Their hyperactive existence is built more on a perpetual, exhausting day that prevents them from disconnecting from reality for even a second. The frenetic pace of the big city, the constant rush from one place to another, the endless tasks the couple relentlessly juggles, the unexpected events, the rush, the stress, raising a young child, the constant distractions, the ever-present unfinished business—all of this shapes a hectic lifestyle that the reader may well recognize as their own.

On the eve of their vacation, under an unbearable heat, they both have a thousand things on their minds to resolve, and all of them seem urgent. Contemporary life, however, is characterized by a lack of clarity regarding what truly matters, so every small decision, task, setback is approached as a matter of life or death.

Travis works at a magazine, and it's deadline day. While the dreaded thought of being fired haunts him, unexpected events of all kinds keep happening around him. Anne, meanwhile, is fed up with the customer service department where she's assigned, and her relationships with some of her colleagues threaten to blow the office to bits. Making it through the day won't be easy.

A Thousand Things is a novel about life consumed by work, packed schedules, daily stress, fragmented attention, the breakneck pace of life, the small tragedies and great hardships that metropolises inflict upon us. A fast-paced novel about a dizzying, urgent life, narrated like a thriller, with mounting tension where everything could explode at any moment. A further example of Juan Tallón's powerful, ingenious, and insightful narrative talent for capturing one of the ills of our time.