Faspa consists of a collection of left-overs and other goodness. 
Things you’d see on the Toews’ family table:

Homemade buns
Leftover roast beef or ham
New Bothwell cheddar cheese
Jell-O Salad (cherry flavour)
Butter
Honey
Coffee
Cookies or cake

Books by Miriam Toews

Summer of My Amazing Luck, Turnstone Press, 1996
A Boy of Good Breeding, Vintage Canada, 1998
Swing Low: A Life (non-fiction), Vintage Canada, 2000
A Complicated Kindness, Knopf Canada, 2004
The Flying Troutmans, Knopf Canada, 2008
Irma Voth, Knopf Canada, 2011
All My Puny Sorrows, Knopf Canada, 2014