What is the theme in The Art of the Novel by Natasha Saje?

Fiction versus real life is a theme in the poem. In “The Art of the Novel,” Sajé depicts a woman whose life has centered on classic novels and their heroines. The speaker clearly loves literature and has given it an important place in her life. She writes that the plots have unfolded “with me riding shotgun” and that novels have “made my world bigger.” These images are indicative of a person who has allowed classic fiction to be a very real part of her life a