State Fair is a 1932 novel by
Phil Stong about an
Iowa farm family's visit to the
Iowa State Fair, where the family's two teenage children each fall in love, but ultimately break up with their respective new loves and return to their familiar life back on the farm. Thomas Leslie, the author of
Iowa State Fair: Country Comes to Town, wrote that the novel
State Fair is "a surprisingly dark coming-of-age story that took as its major plot device the effects of the 'worldly temptations' of the Iowa State Fair on a local farming family", capturing tensions between urban
Des Moines and rural Iowa.