A Voice From the Mountains embraces Caponi's youth during the 1930s in Pretare, a small Italian village and as an immigrant in America. The pages of this memoir feature short poetic vignettes that plunge readers into "a landscape of homes and hills that weathered undisturbed for generations/ a few buildings of freshly quarried limestone stood out/ as white daisies sprouting out of season." Caponi moves to America and on to World War II as he is faced with conflicting loyalties when he returns to Mussolini's Italy as a U.S. G.I.